Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Badges make more than pin money |
| 2 | I have put pen to paper sparingly , aware that pictures speak louder than words . |
| 3 | This will tend to exempt users of word processors from registration , but not users of databases containing more than names and addresses . |
| 4 | Currently , each of the MDOs has a similar subscription structure : dentists pay less than doctors , some non-clinical staff pay much less than clinicians , and junior doctors pay on a sliding scale reaching the full rate after 7 years . |
| 5 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 6 | Relationships need more than empathy . |
| 7 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 8 | There is , of course , a sense in which all our actions or deeds speak louder than words , and that everything we do — or fail to do , for that matter — is open to interpretation and therefore counts as a communication . |
| 9 | Several other European countries look better than Britain , either because they are in the ERM or because they are trimming budget deficits ( or both ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The pattern that imports decreased more than exports remains unchanged , which could help maintain the surplus and problems with other nations , ’ Mr Okoshi said . |
| 11 | Behind these changes lay both developments in the European economy as a whole , and the English exploitation of new manufacturing techniques , from which particular areas benefited more than others . |
| 12 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ Places change more than people , perhaps . |
| 14 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 15 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 16 | Do not actions speak louder than words ? |
| 17 | Judaism is a practical religion , with practical solutions , where actions speak louder than words . |
| 18 | In any event the user 's opinion of a product is reflected in the standard achieved so actions speak louder than words . |
| 19 | They say that actions speak louder than words . |
| 20 | Actions speak louder than words : at the age of seventy he climbed to a house |
| 21 | He added that he , unlike his opponents , did not apply for exemption from military service — actions speak louder than words ' . |
| 22 | And when it is n't , one maxim that 's often used as a lie detector is the maxim that actions speak louder than words . |
| 23 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |
| 24 | In the kitchen , actions speak louder than words . |
| 25 | On this playing field , actions speak louder than words . |
| 26 | As you can see , males die more than females throughout their , throughout their lifespan . |
| 27 | So in terms of infant mortality er males die more than females . |
| 28 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 29 | The amounts of flocculating agent have to be determined by trial on the water itself , some waters requiring more than others . |
| 30 | The commonest and most widespread of the larger gulls , very variable in size ; males average larger than females . |