Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape . |
| 2 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 3 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 4 | Michelin road-maps mark genuinely arduous or dangerous stretches of road with a broken red line , and though the roadways themselves quite often turn out to be less awkward than you expect from such warnings , less awkward does not mean altogether easy . |
| 5 | Weddings were smaller affairs then , more intimate than they tend to be now . |
| 6 | Bentham ( 1970 : 179 ) himself propounded the principle of ‘ frugality ’ ( or ‘ parsimony ’ ) , which states that punishments should be no more severe than they need to be to produce a utilitarian quantity of deterrence . |
| 7 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 8 | It turns out that the theoretical ‘ shifting ’ effects are less important than they seem in theory . |
| 9 | Ann Mobbs , why are n't women much more angry than they appear to be ? |
| 10 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |
| 11 | We 've certainly got more in common than I 'ave with my real brother . |
| 12 | I sound more scared than I want to . |