Example sentences of "than [pers pn] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm happier at work than I am at home … |
| 2 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | I am not sure whether I am more appalled at the prospect of the Labour party being in government than I am at the prospect of having the support of the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) and the Liberal party . |
| 4 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 5 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | They 're much better informed than I was at their age . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm lighter now than I was at Tottenham . |
| 8 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 9 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 10 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 11 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 12 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 15 | I reckon you 're slightly taller in the morning than you are at night . |
| 16 | The important thing is that you 'll be more confident and able to cope at , say , 21 than you were at 16 . |
| 17 | Remember , if you get a mild reaction , you will need to proceed with caution until you can tell whether that food or food group is causing you to feel less well or less able to lose weight than you were at the end of Stage I. |
| 18 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
| 19 | If these examples reveal anything , perhaps it is the unwelcome truth that most of us are better at memorizing and applying formulae for solving certain types of predictable problems than we are at generating imaginative solutions to unfamiliar problems . |
| 20 | If it does n't , then we 're no worse than we are at the moment , really are n't we ? |
| 21 | Probably more than we are at the moment . |
| 22 | But we also need the broad generalizations that help show whether we are closer to meeting the basic needs of all the world 's people than we were at the start of the 1970s . |
| 23 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 24 | Even presented in outline like that , it is reasonably clear that under green regimes Europeans would , by any conventional standards , become a great deal poorer than they are at the moment . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , there is no reason why economists should be any better at predicting that date than they are at predicting currencies . |
| 26 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 27 | prisoners whose character and record render them suitable … should be released from prison earlier than they are at present . |
| 28 | At low river flows the effects of pollution are greater than they are at high flows , and , if there is any contamination that is likely to affect textile processing , this will show up more in samples taken at such times . |
| 29 | [ I ] n the case of Britain and Israel , two countries without codified constitutions , such pressure as exists to adopt one is based less on the desire to possess a clear-cut organisational chart delimiting the institutions of government than on a feeling that rights would be better protected under a codified constitution than they are at present . |
| 30 | If ‘ community care ’ is not to result in increased impoverishment and dependency for women care-givers ( with all the possible long-term adverse consequences for their own old age ) , then employment and social security policies and the provision of ‘ community care ’ services have to be integrated to a far greater extent than they are at present . |