Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 2 | And some fiction ; women must be writing better books than they seem to be publishing . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , we know even less about the inspection methods of these inspectors than we do of HMIs . |
| 4 | The behaviour of some animal rights supporters , who have sometimes appeared to care more for animals than they do for men and women , has also not commended their cause . |
| 5 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 6 | You get higher turn out in non- metropolitan districts than you do in county council or in metropolitan district elections . |
| 7 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 10 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 11 | We know much more about the state of Chelsea 's teeth than we do about the state of the nation . |
| 12 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 13 | By next year , payroll tax-rates will have risen by 30% since 1978 , and half of all Americans will be paying more in payroll taxes than they do in ( more progressive ) income taxes . |
| 14 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 15 | You get much higher turn out in local government elections in western Europe , we western European states than you do in Britain . |
| 16 | However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past . |
| 17 | In a relatively focused community such as Ballymacarrett , therefore , we observe much greater regularity in the patterning of the variable elements than we do in less focused communities , and we may further suggest that the variants used in such a focused community develop a clear and consistent pattern in their social functions . |
| 18 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |
| 19 | We get much more happiness in investing in other people 's lives than we do in self-isolation . |
| 20 | By providing patients and their owners with organised puppy parties , I can save more lives than I will with drugs or scalpel . |
| 21 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 22 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 23 | What will basically happen is we would organize the clearance of footpaths within Southwell boundary , and so they would give us an amount of money each year and then we would er take on , we would nominate which footpaths are to be cleared , we have got far more ideas than they have in Nottingham need attention . |
| 24 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 25 | Although ability tests receive a higher ranking in terms of their predictive validity from these meta-analytic studies than they do from Muchinsky , personality tests were rated as having lower validity . |
| 26 | Hymer speculates that the pituitary cells package hormone molecules differently in weightless conditions than they do under gravity . |
| 27 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 28 | Whether we are consumers or citizens , we stand more chance of being robbed by persons who roam corporate suites than we do by those who roam public streets . |
| 29 | If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past . |
| 30 | Because Designaknit is intended for use by hand knitters as well as machine knitters , the program does not warn you if a garment piece will require more needles than you have on your machine . |