Example sentences of "than [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 2 | Beck was 33rd in driving accuracy but 147th in hitting greens , a starting pair of numbers from a pro who is reputed to hit the irons more solidly than anyone else on Tour . |
| 3 | For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth . |
| 4 | Naturally , the Ceauşescu clan had to possess more consumer goods than anyone else in order to assert their authority . |
| 5 | It also put the man who has won more money than anyone else in golf within reach of the $8 million mark . |
| 6 | Most of the reviews admitted slight disappointment before bowing to the fact that a flawed Smiths album was still better than anything else on offer . |
| 7 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 8 | Americans had more nature than anything else except money , and they got pretty excited about that too . |
| 9 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |