Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more than I want any part in Local Government where Councillors and Officers can spend twenty thousand pounds tripping all over Europe and let's put something straight , the T and A tonight , which we all believe , says Councillor has no right to complain about that cos he went on a jet plane to Brussels . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sick last season has ended , but I 'm looking forward to the next one more than I have any season . |
| 3 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 4 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 5 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 6 | Do your books ‘ balance ’ — ie do you spend less than you receive each week ? |
| 7 | The examples given are : ( 2 ) I have seen hastier people than you stay all night . |
| 8 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 9 | Assuming that for most people a job which requires a high level of effort ( or long hours ) is less preferable than one requiring less effort , and that more pay is preferable to less pay , then people will make a trade-off , if they are allowed , between the effort they exert and the pay they are awarded . |
| 10 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 11 | Latest figures show that TODAY now sells 101,347 more copies than we did this time last year . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got more than we need this season . ’ |
| 13 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you consider me more dangerous than whoever sent that letter ? ’ |
| 15 | This generous depth , combined with a full-scale neck , a heavily arched back and a lightly-strutted belly , means that the guitar packs a lot more punch than it has any right to — more than a Martin 0–16 New Yorker , I 'd say , although that 's only from memory . |
| 16 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |