Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he says , our planet has managed to come through worse cataclysms than any we have so far invented , and there are always winners . |
| 2 | The changes on the labour market had come with greater rapidity than anticipated , too much reliance had been placed on the automatic adjustments , the mobility , of the market mechanism ’ ( quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 605 ) . |
| 3 | March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening . |
| 4 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 5 | Hardly had the rains stopped when the spectators began to return to the slope above the melon beds , coming in greater numbers than ever before . |
| 6 | This shows a scene at one of her famous parties , with the greeting : ‘ Hope you can come in more ways than one . ’ |
| 7 | These usually come in bigger chunks than that . |
| 8 | Pointed comments are made about racial discrimination within the army , the insensitivity of television journalists , and uninformed liberal political views : indeed , the anti-war movement at home comes under more criticism than the NVA regulars entrenched at the top of the hill . |