Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 3 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 4 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 5 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 6 | McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’ |
| 7 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 8 | Finite mind within the world also advances dialectically , from undifferentiated consciousness through objective awareness of things other than itself to the act of understanding in which the subject/object dichotomy is overcome . |
| 9 | Although Angel One had been trained in kendo , the ancient art of Japanese swordsmanship , as part of his overall mastery of martial arts , he knew from having witnessed his opponent in action , that the man was more skilled than he with the katana . |
| 10 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 11 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 12 | Fact , in this instance , is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction . |
| 13 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 14 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |