Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 2 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 3 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 4 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 5 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 6 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 7 | If you 're driving in a flash car , driving a porsche you 'll pay more than in a mini . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 9 | Note that even without the exact position of the original markers being known , the line from Bishops Cannings church through the WKLB and the centres varies by less than of a degree . |
| 10 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 11 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
| 12 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |