Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 2 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 3 | We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion . |
| 4 | We are aware that socially and economically we have more in common with our opposite numbers in the Republican ( Catholic ) side than we have with loyalist ( Protestant ) big-wigs . |
| 5 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |