Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 2 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 3 | It means that we bring our disordered lives right into marriage more than we do in any other kind of relationship . |
| 4 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 5 | But accountability and care no more have to be the absolute precondition , the ever-present animating ethic , of sexual relations , homosexual or otherwise , than they do of any other kind except in the obvious sense that care of some kind is the precondition of almost any shared social activity . |
| 6 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 7 | The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country . |
| 8 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 9 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 10 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 11 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |