Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 2 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 3 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 4 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important advance is the recognition of the need to place the child 's interests and welfare above any other considerations — although this may prove simpler in the abstract than it is in practice . |
| 6 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 7 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |