Example sentences of "than [pers pn] was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 2 | But the Princess Sabatini was no more responsible for her egotistical grandson than she was for tonight 's overblown charity event . |
| 3 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 4 | This situation was worse for the Communist Party women than it was for the men . |
| 5 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 6 | The response in this area was far more positive than it was for simple strumming . |
| 7 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 8 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 9 | It was no less incongruous for me to live with my mother than it was for Syl to live with his , or Nour with Marie Claire . |
| 10 | He is also far more relaxed than he was for the majority of his Formula One career , laughing and joking with reporters and rivals . |
| 11 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |