Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you get more energy back when two light nuclei fuse than it costs to get them together it would seem that we are bound to win . |
| 2 | ‘ Our area manager said there had been more reaction to the closing of this post office than they had ever known , ’ Mr. Hover told the Herald . |
| 3 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | No wonder that poor people living in the traditional way in India and many African countries have a considerably shorter life expectancy than we — with our better living conditions and easily available medicine . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're probably in more danger from a British rifle bullet than you are from any French weapon . ’ |
| 6 | They got no more sympathy from the global banking system than you or I would ( or did ) in similar circumstances . |
| 7 | A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’ |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |
| 9 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 10 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 11 | For example , even taking interest into account , it is nearly always cheaper to borrow , to buy an annual season ticket than it is to pay daily . |
| 12 | Difficult to do when it 's in a real life situation believe me it 's harder to do in a real life situation than it is in a situation we 've got |
| 13 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 14 | Well , I think the idea is , that certainly large hotels could afford to pay a bigger collective bill than they 're paying at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ No sooner had everyone recovered from the trauma of having to reschedule the full-length play festival than we heard about Portadown . |
| 16 | A Brazilian lucky enough to earn the minimum wage must work four times longer now for a basic food ration than she would have done in 1959 . |
| 17 | However , it would also deprive the company of a welcome capital injection and would leave Jaguar shareholders facing a much lower share price than they currently enjoy . |
| 18 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 19 | And there 's a lady there , and er , got a caravan and her husband had died and she wanted me to swap caravans , her 's was actually a better condition caravan than mine |
| 20 | But I will say , and this is without criticism , they were doing a much better job instructing than they could possibly done on operations . |
| 21 | It also has substantial material advantages — the ability to raise loans is greater , the opportunity for setting off and writing off business expenses are more generous and , because tax to be paid at the end of any one financial year is assessed in relation to the previous year 's results , organisations with a growing turnover have a lower effective tax rate than they would if tax were assessed on current activities . |
| 22 | Another woman , after all , would no more hire a beauty queen to present a current affairs programme than she would hire a motor mechanic to give her a facelift . |
| 23 | no , what I 'm saying is I think that 's something that the B A I E education committee nationally should sit down and have a look at , I mean it may well be that at the end of the day Napier would set a better exam paper than they would er , also I 've suggested to them and again they have n't that Napier validate the course do the marking but with perhaps two B A I E fellows |
| 24 | Belle and I floored another hen betwixt the pair of us , and I shall be no sooner done with the present writing racket than I shall put myself outside a pint of Guinness . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co reckons an Intel Corp 80486 platform wo n't be enough to run Microsoft Corp Windows NT and , while it 's watching how Pentium develops , is figuring Microsoft is going to need a better RISC processor than it 's currently got . |
| 26 | ‘ Consequently , local authorities have somewhat greater discretion in the environmental health area than they do in relation to council house sales ’ ( p. 103 ) . |
| 27 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 28 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
| 29 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 30 | As we shall see in section 3.2 , this is a more difficuIt exercise than it would appear . |