Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim . |
| 2 | The Mason 's voice shouted stronger than the rest , ‘ Let me in ! |
| 3 | The old system had its flaws , but nevertheless , it seemed fairer than the poll tax . |
| 4 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 5 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 6 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 7 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 8 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 9 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 10 | We conclude that the CL100 gene and its mouse homologue represent a new subclass of mammalian PTPase in that they show no significant similarity to any human PTPase yet discovered other than the presence of the highly conserved active-site sequence . |
| 11 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 12 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 13 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 14 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 15 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 16 | It offered more than the Curragh . |
| 17 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 18 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 19 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 20 | In a sense he was singing siren songs to that part of himself which had got stuck in the old , dead forms , where the artist mattered more than the content . |
| 21 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 22 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 23 | It felt warmer than the pub . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal in Lawrence [ 1971 ] 1 QB 373 went wider than the House did . |
| 25 | It 's difficult to escape the conclusion that a great many of those questioned spoke less than the truth in their answers . |
| 26 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |
| 27 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 28 | But the woman sounded calmer than the man . |
| 29 | And to say as much — to think as much — was to admit religion , to admit that life held more than the grave at the end of it , to admit that there was a spirit which transcended the poor imperfect flesh . |