Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later chapters , then , I hope that I will display a more ecumenical perspective than I manage in this one ! |
| 2 | But I still had more room than I needed in that so that was quite useful . |
| 3 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 4 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 5 | Section 2(4) of the Act provides … any enactment passed or to be passed , other than one contained in this Part of this Act , shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing provisions of this section … " |
| 6 | ‘ We have a much higher profile abroad than we do in this country , ’ said Patrick . |
| 7 | It means that we bring our disordered lives right into marriage more than we do in any other kind of relationship . |
| 8 | ‘ We could not have got any closer to Wembley than we did in those two games . |
| 9 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 10 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |
| 11 | That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages . |
| 12 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 13 | Yea , some that come constantly to our meetings are grossly ignorant ; whereas in one hour 's familiar instruction of them in private , they seem to understand more , and better entertain it than they did in all their lives before . ’ |
| 14 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 15 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
| 16 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 17 | The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country . |
| 18 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | It is worth noting that over half Jack 's 242 League appearances for Crystal Palace were in Division Two of the Football League — and only Roy McCracken made more appearances than he did in those four seasons , 1921–25 , so there is no doubt that Jack was a loyal club servant in a demanding period . |