Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 2 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 3 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 9 | No sooner had she said it than she burst into a dry hard sobbing . |
| 10 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 11 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 12 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 13 | Bulking agents are sometimes added to maintain easy pathways for nutrients ( especially oxygen ) to get to microorganisms , rather than everything collapsing into a mass that is not conducive to diffusion . |
| 14 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | There 's no more perfect strawberry than one soaked in a mix of lemon juice and a little sugar . |
| 17 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 18 | I never could understand why a letter typed with a word processor was any less personal than one produced with a typewriter . |
| 19 | Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company . |
| 20 | Greenaway rejects the conventional grammar of film , its reaction shots and implied points of view , but he replaces it not with his own idiom but with his slide library , though a film modelled on an art-historical lecture has no greater intrinsic claim to quality than one modelled on a promotional video , a newsreel or a travel brochure . |
| 21 | The use of new materials and new geometric shapes , shorn of ‘ redundant ’ decoration , implied a lean , fit , up-to-date industry , rather than one revelling in a pre-war Victorian complacency . |
| 22 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 23 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 24 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 25 | It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing . |
| 26 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 27 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 28 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 29 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 30 | However , status attributes ascribed by birth in a caste society define an individual 's position in the stratification system much more completely and securely than they do in a class society . |