Example sentences of "than [pron] was [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 2 | I never expect to be more moved by a man and a horse than I was by Winter and Mandarin this afternoon . |
| 3 | She was no more a disciple of Churchill than she was of Heath . |
| 4 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 5 | And I felt that that there was more pressure in social work than there was in teaching . |
| 6 | ‘ Life for these people is worse now than it was under slavery , ’ says Wilson Furtado , of the agriculture federation in Bahia state , Brazil . |
| 7 | She did n't want her relationship with her chief to become any closer than it was at present . |
| 8 | It is true that the government used all the influence it could to secure the return of loyal members , and the purges of borough corporations at the end of Charles II 's reign certainly had an electoral impact , but the election of such a loyal Parliament appears to have been more the result of a genuine reaction against the Whigs amongst the electorate than it was of Court manipulation . |
| 9 | It was no less incongruous for me to live with my mother than it was for Syl to live with his , or Nour with Marie Claire . |
| 10 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
| 11 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 12 | Such a time seems happier than it was in recollection , for anxiety , its chief torment , is over . |
| 13 | A man on average earnings , with a wife and two children , has an income today which after tax and inflation is 39 per cent higher than it was in Labour 's last year . |
| 14 | In September 1982 , I published an original article which suggested the use of a subsidiary power amplifier to make the load seen by a low power main voltage amplifier seem very much greater than it was in reality . |
| 15 | Nationalist critics of O'Neill such as Michael Farrell believe that the O'Neill administration was more reformist in its rhetoric than it was in reality . |
| 16 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 17 | According to his wife ‘ he was more afraid of the sun , or the black smoke of gunpowder , than he was of musket balls ’ . |
| 18 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 19 | No sooner one woman in the grave whom he had cheated on , a woman who had been miserable enough to kill herself , than he was in bed with another . |
| 20 | Since she had begun by taking charge he had let her continue doing so , and had responded by being more feckless , lazier and more contrary than he was by nature . |
| 21 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |