Example sentences of "than [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 2 | Whether it was McColgan or Meyer , I was fully prepared so I could go faster than them in the closing stages . ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Different standards may be environmentally appropriate : a smoking chimney in the Australian outback does less harm than one in the Ruhr valley . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 8 | She loved Edward more than anybody in the world . |
| 9 | ‘ Ludovico , ’ Constance said , placing his hand on the ring on her finger , ‘ I love you more than anybody in the world and I always will . |
| 10 | And , although being taller , broader , leaner , fitter than anybody in the whole SE postal district undoubtedly had something to do with it , he seemed to shine with that undefinable , but unmistakable , showbiz sheen . |
| 11 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 12 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 13 | There are worse men than him in the world ! ’ |
| 14 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 15 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 16 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 17 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 18 | The Labour Party showed more faith than anyone in the medicine of the pollsters and strategists , believing they has found in it the panacea for their 13-year malaise . |
| 19 | However , USL has recently claimed that it will configure Destiny to run applications of all persuasions — including Solaris — ( UX No 380 ) , Zander says ‘ if they can do that they 're better than anyone in the world . ’ |
| 20 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 21 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 23 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 24 | Last season Ian gained full International honours , completed his century of Palace goals to join the select group of just five men to have achieved that feat for us since the club 's foundation back in 1905 , and scored twice as Palace beat Everton 4–2 to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final at Wembley , while his virtuoso hat-trick , scored in just eighteen minutes during the second half of Palace 's penultimate game of 1990–91 , at Wimbledon , demonstrated in magnificent style that when Ian is on form there is no more dangerous or exciting player than he in the entire Football League . |
| 25 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 26 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 27 | I now want one more than anything in the world . |
| 28 | He says ‘ I love you more than anything in the world ’ I believe him |
| 29 | Fact , in this instance , is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction . |
| 30 | ‘ More than anything in the world . ’ |