Example sentences of "than [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 2 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 3 | ‘ At 39 he 's a bit older than my other boyfriends and past the stage of running around . |
| 4 | Eventually I realised that a weapon could be more effective than my 11-year-old fists and depleted teeth , so I smashed an empty milk bottle over his head . |
| 5 | Got on better with him than my own parents , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 6 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 7 | It promises to be rather more straightforward ’ — he grinned — ‘ than my own enquiries . ’ |
| 8 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 9 | Now , I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends . |
| 10 | Card publishers are keen to supply a wider range of outlets other than their traditional markets . |
| 11 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 12 | They earn a lot more , at the last count , averaging 4.63 an hour — though this was a lot less than their on-site colleagues , for they only earned when there was work . |
| 13 | Yet it should be remembered that the school-leaving age was not actually raised until after the Second World War and that the suggestion that they should receive secondary education was tainted by the official assumption that the children of the working class were innately less intelligent than their middle-class brethren . |
| 14 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 15 | The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art . |
| 16 | This , added to physical fatigue , produced a considerable burden , especially as the average age of the full-time farmer was greater than their part-time counterparts . |
| 17 | In the case of the morning papers , it seems that papers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph are much more difficult than their Swedish counterparts . |
| 18 | Viruses that produce many of their own enzymes are more versatile than their simpler colleagues , but even the most complex viruses depend at some stage on the proteins of the infected cell . |
| 19 | Before looking at the relationship between mortality rates and social class over the years , it is worth referring to some evidence which suggest that similar medical care benefits upper-class patients more than their lower-class counterparts . |
| 20 | Sephardic Jews , who are descended from Western Europe ( Spain and Portugal ; but also the Middle East and North Africa ) , expressed themselves through their own languages , but were always more ‘ intellectual ’ , more philosophical — in the Aristotelian sense - more scientific and commercial , and more open to syncretism ( e.g. with Islamic and Christian modes of thought ) than their Eastern brethren . |
| 21 | At all ages above 75 years women are more likely to be living in an institution than their male contemporaries . |
| 22 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 23 | The Department of Employment 's survey of women who were of working age in 1980 ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) presents much evidence to explain why most women do not complete lengthy periods of pensionable service and why , where they have had access to occupational pension benefits , they tend to end up with lower weekly rates of pension and smaller lump sums than their male contemporaries . |
| 24 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 25 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 26 | However , even where , as in many public sector occupations , membership of an employer 's pension scheme was ( until 1988 ) automatic for permanent full-time staff , including women , horizontal segregation ensured that women , typically , ended their working lives with lower pension benefits than their male colleagues . |
| 27 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |
| 28 | As Brah and Deem point out , Afro-Caribbean young women are stereotyped as ‘ pushy ’ , but achieve better in schools than their male counterparts . |
| 29 | Young women who offend often receive quite different treatment than their male counterparts . |
| 30 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |