Example sentences of "they than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 2 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 3 | Their pay and conditions are miserable and there are far more of them than the army can usefully employ . |
| 4 | Because their reading skills are poor too , many reports end up in the waste bin — which is a better place for them than the filing cabinet . |
| 5 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 6 | Apparently the herdsman is coming back tomorrow , and he 's probably gentler with them than the relief milker , and when the cows get used to their new surroundings the milk yield will return to normal . |
| 7 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 8 | Poverty is a more pressing problem for them than the greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | Leslie Goldberg , a consultant spoke of civil servants in the US Defense Department who took their own personal computers into the office ‘ because it was easier to use them than the department 's system . ’ |
| 10 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |