Example sentences of "than [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was accustomed to speaking her mind , knew less than nothing about the subject , and uttered the word which no genteel person , particularly a woman , would have spoken , or even known . |
| 2 | Barney was n't often stumped but she knew less than nothing about the sport . |
| 3 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 4 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 5 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 6 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 7 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 8 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 9 | Whether it was McColgan or Meyer , I was fully prepared so I could go faster than them in the closing stages . ’ |
| 10 | Without such rethinking , he argues , " we shall lose our vision as a people , and , as a great people , surely perish , destroying more than ourselves in the process " . |
| 11 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 12 | There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ? |
| 13 | Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time . |
| 14 | And it 's it 's true in any presentation there 's nothing more uncomfortable is there than somebody in the middle of a presentation that you 're watching struggling that 's right you really feel sorry for them . |
| 15 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 16 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 17 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 18 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 19 | Finite mind within the world also advances dialectically , from undifferentiated consciousness through objective awareness of things other than itself to the act of understanding in which the subject/object dichotomy is overcome . |
| 20 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 21 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 22 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 23 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 24 | Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes . |
| 25 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 26 | I have not noted any particular problems with C cells ; this is because they are usually installed side by side , rather than one above the other . |
| 27 | McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’ |
| 28 | Portadown-based Crowe , a close season signing by Bangor , embarks on his third successive European mission wiser in more ways than one from the Antwerp experience . |
| 29 | Different standards may be environmentally appropriate : a smoking chimney in the Australian outback does less harm than one in the Ruhr valley . |
| 30 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |