Example sentences of "than [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knew better than her the strength of William Ash 's bullying personality ? |
| 2 | And she said she said I am not having you putting down the value of my house and having yours higher than mine the value of my house . |
| 3 | However , MPs who wish to satisfy their constituency parties could vote Smith-Prescott and still retain some left-wing credibility , while ordinary party members understand better than anyone the need for an organisational shake-up . |
| 4 | No man knew better than he the value of a generous gesture . |
| 5 | So we are looking at creating a society with our rich peasants who are going to own significantly more than whatever the average is going to be , and significantly more than middle peasants . |
| 6 | In a number of cases since the 1960s , which have involved a variety of circumstances ( demonstrations , deportations and publications ) , judges in the United Kingdom have refused to accept that ‘ national security ’ can mean anything other than what the government of the day says it means . |
| 7 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 8 | As I say , the er , it is , it is two million less , than what the government has assessed we should be receiving in interest payments . |
| 9 | The shadow employment secretary Frank Dobson said : ‘ It is unfair to expect vital people like nurses and teachers to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation , a lot less then settlements outside , and less than what the Government are likely to give the judges . ’ |
| 10 | Even though ‘ OSF/1 is a strange strategy , ’ IDC says that users at the top-end of the market are less interested in what operating system their boxes run than what the machine can do . |
| 11 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 12 | The first is the ethical difficulty associated with the need to give a patient the treatment that is believed to be best for him or her as an individual rather than what the statistician 's random allocation might assign . |
| 13 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 14 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 15 | They should be seeing what they can offer in the modern world rather than what the law does and how it links to the client . ’ |
| 16 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 17 | The essential skill in setting call objectives is to phrase them in terms of what the salesperson wants the customer to do rather than what the salesperson will do . |
| 18 | Even though ‘ OSF/1 is a strange strategy , ’ IDC says users at the top-end of the market are less interested in what operating system their boxes run than what the box can do . |
| 19 | But the pittance they would pay him meantime might be no better than what the Professor offered , and at least the occupation of reading would be more satisfactory than dry law . |
| 20 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 21 | This was n't ‘ supposed ’ to happen ; it was much more exciting than what the textbook had promised ! |
| 22 | In this view the concern is for what the process of study contributes to the pupil 's development rather than what the religion being studied contributes to that development . |
| 23 | Don Reading , of Save The Children , has just returned from Somalia and said : ‘ This matter needed more than anything the chance to reach the people . |
| 24 | And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " ) |
| 25 | Deploying forces in America in this way was more ambitious than anything the monarchy had done , and the Republic 's success in winning the obedience of the colonies and forcing the small royalist fleet to give up its privateering activities showed how much more effective England 's power had become . |