Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 2 | Leapor devotes a greater part of her poetry to the description of agriculture and to questions related to the use of land than she does to domestic service . |
| 3 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 4 | THE Queen has always liked Fergie and gets on much better with her than she does with her other daughter-in-law , Princess Diana . |
| 5 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
| 6 | THE luscious Melanie Griffith has never looked sexier than she does in her new film Close To Eden . |
| 7 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 8 | ‘ Ellen , ’ as Bernard sometimes observed , ‘ puts up with more from cats than she does from humans . ’ |
| 9 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 10 | She 's got Ruth , a Shirley 's Ann , to me , looks more like Judith than she looks like her mother . |
| 11 | Just as many children score lower on a word-recognition reading test than they ought , because the words have no context of meaning , so she may be able to spell better than she demonstrates on this test . |
| 12 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 14 | If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 . |
| 15 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 16 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 17 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 18 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 19 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 20 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 21 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 22 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 23 | Furthermore there will be other scholarship boys beside myself , and hopefully my intelligence will provoke less spite than it does at Marshside Junior . |
| 24 | The first dog will establish the ground rules for the second dog and invariably , a better and more consistent relationship is established between the two dogs — quite often the second dog forms a far greater bond with the other dog than it does with the owners . |
| 25 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 26 | Claudia Schiffer , on the other hand , appears to represent a return to innocence and vulnerability , which has more in common with the glamorous screen goddesses of the 1930s than it does with the predatory allure of Sharon Stone . |
| 27 | Graphics plays an even lesser role with SuperCalc 5.5 than it does with Lotus 1-2-3 , so if you do n't like pretty pictures you might be more at home in the Computer Associates stable — and at this price , why not ? |
| 28 | It is an angry , retrospective account of the trip to Aden which coincides more accurately with Nizan 's highly militant frame of mind in 1930 and 1931 , than it does with the Nizan of 1926 and 1927 groping his way slowly towards the solution of political action . |
| 29 | As a reader , it becomes easier to empathise with the androids and their fear than it does with Mildred and her friends in ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ who have become passionless . |
| 30 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |