Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three close neighbours from north-west Europe provide instructive comparisons which say more about political attitudes than they do about natural advantages for cycling as a mode of transport . |
| 2 | The current trend of pay and price increases is more than we had hoped , and it 's , it 's certainly more than er , than er , the planned increase in our income will cover , and I have to say that the rate of turnover of staff has reduced even further and so we will be spending more on staff for that reason than we had planned . |
| 3 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 4 | I do n't know anything more about this business than he does . |
| 5 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 6 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 7 | where you stand to gain very much more from a successful action for wrongful dismissal than you would from proceeding before an industrial tribunal , bearing in mind the ceiling on unfair dismissal compensation and the potential value of your contract if your notice entitlement is lengthy . |
| 8 | The crisis-weary Poles are showing far less enthusiasm for this agreement than they would have in the heady days of 1980 . |
| 9 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 10 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure you know more about such things than I do , ’ she replied , amazed that she could sound so calm . |
| 12 | ‘ You know more about such people than I do , Brother . |
| 13 | Nephrite pebbles show up by their colour and translucency much more clearly when viewed through flowing water than they do when dry . |
| 14 | On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed . |
| 15 | Christians are no more immune to the subtle influences of prejudiced attitudes than they are exempt from inclinations towards selfishness , greed or envy . |
| 16 | The major , Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973 . |
| 17 | It was enough with Donnington 's preoccupation with his Home Guarding and a daughter who thought more of wounded soldiers than she did of family duty . |
| 18 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 19 | ‘ Does that mean we shall see a great deal more of each other than we have in the past ? ’ she asked . |
| 20 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 21 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 22 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 23 | We 've got more of that lad than we have of Chrissie . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , Maxim had listened and believed : she knew far more of that world than he did . |
| 25 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 26 | Beyond that size , you would be paying more in compensation for the loss of marginal benefit of another inch than you would be saving yourself in reduced cost of the externality . |
| 27 | He had been a man in authority in his own country , and used to the arrogant assertion of power … and the unquestioning obedience of each and every man who was of lesser rank than him . |
| 28 | the chance that there may be a result of lesser quality than you yourself could achieve |
| 29 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 30 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |