Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are aware that socially and economically we have more in common with our opposite numbers in the Republican ( Catholic ) side than we have with loyalist ( Protestant ) big-wigs . |
| 2 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 3 | We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion . |
| 4 | We seem to know more about car maintenance than we do about our own bodies . |
| 5 | Do n't deploy onto a larger frontage than you have to with Goblins . |
| 6 | Assuming that the money market is in equilibrium initially , the policy will raise the supply of money above the demand for money , and wealth holders will find themselves holding more money than they desire in their portfolios . |
| 7 | According to Barry Morris , Blackpool 's tourism boss : ‘ People are not prepared to accept less in a B&B than they have at home . |
| 8 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 9 | These phenomena are so elusive , so debatable , so exploitable by the credulous and those who thrive on manipulating them that they drive more away from genuine religious experience than they attract to it . |
| 10 | For example , I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin . |
| 11 | No They get more on sickness benefit than they do on |
| 12 | ‘ I find it interesting that we have produced more players of other colours in rugby than they have in our cricket . |
| 13 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been an even naughtier boy than we know about . ’ |
| 15 | Some instruments receive far more prominence than they do in more everyday tunes , others get merely the lightest , occasional touch . |
| 16 | I mean that 's more capacity than we need to . |
| 17 | To achieve an export-import balance under current Tory policies would mean an even worse slump than we have at present because the only thing made in Britain under the Tories is a Tory-made recession . |
| 18 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 19 | The last thing we need is having to spend more time in the God-forsaken place than we have to . |
| 20 | We 've got more of that lad than we have of Chrissie . ’ |
| 21 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 22 | ‘ Failure to act before April 5 may result in you missing out and paying more tax than you need to . ’ |
| 23 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 24 | Sir : The North-east publishers of Viz are nearer the truth than they realise with their soccer strip ( 29 September ) . |
| 25 | He knows less of its true nature than you seem to ! ’ |
| 26 | Man knew more about the landscape of the moon before the first landing than we know about ‘ afterlife ’ . |
| 27 | An ozone depletion over the Arctic could be much more serious , as many more people live closer to the north pole than they do to the south pole ; for example North America , Russia and Europe . |
| 28 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 29 | Research shows that secondary pupils do use fewer non-standard forms in talk with the teacher than they do in the playground ; |
| 30 | The eighties remains an enigma — already we know more about the rise of the radical new Right than we do about the demise of the old Left . |