Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] than [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 2 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 3 | Things certainly look better than back in the late Eighties , when he went unemployed for nearly two years . |
| 4 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 5 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 6 | After a while the chairman added , ‘ Surely we do more than deal with absconding ? |
| 7 | Only occasionally did this local sentiment prove stronger than loyalty to the nation , as in 1489 when the levy of taxation for the distant Breton War led to a Yorkshire rising , in which the earl of Northumberland was murdered , and in 1497 when the Cornishmen rebelled against the payment of a subsidy for war with Scotland ( 73 , pp.14 , 15 ) . |