Example sentences of "than [indef pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Different standards may be environmentally appropriate : a smoking chimney in the Australian outback does less harm than one in the Ruhr valley . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state . |
| 18 | She was in the back row , lifted higher than anybody by the boys on either side of her . |
| 19 | She loved Edward more than anybody in the world . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 25 | The other is that Americans have grumbled louder and longer than anyone about the rubbish they throw out . |
| 26 | ‘ He knows more than anyone about the family assets , and he 's totally in the gang 's power . |
| 27 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 28 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |