Example sentences of "than they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 2 | They pay a slightly lower rate of interest on money at call than they earn by discounting bills . |
| 3 | They can discharge a journeyman from service without his master 's content ; they can advance their wages , and in many instances , prevent the master taking more apprentices than they approve of , and such a number , as the nature of the work requires . |
| 4 | They get far more than they bargain for . |
| 5 | Private indigenous entrepreneurs in Nigeria are still to cultivate the discipline of conserving more than they consume of their trade surplus and of re-investing such surpluses to expand the firm . |
| 6 | But in Bangladesh boys are already producing more than they consume by the age of 10 and have repaid their parents ’ investment in their upbringing by the time they are 15 . |
| 7 | Assuming that the money market is in equilibrium initially , the policy will raise the supply of money above the demand for money , and wealth holders will find themselves holding more money than they desire in their portfolios . |
| 8 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 9 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 10 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 11 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there are clear overall safety benefits from these approaches , which lead accidents in residential areas to fail more than they rise on peripheral roads . |
| 13 | Weddings were smaller affairs then , more intimate than they tend to be now . |
| 14 | And some fiction ; women must be writing better books than they seem to be publishing . ’ |
| 15 | I only hope that the civic authorities have them under better control than they seem to be here . |
| 16 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |
| 17 | It turns out that the theoretical ‘ shifting ’ effects are less important than they seem in theory . |
| 18 | Sir : The North-east publishers of Viz are nearer the truth than they realise with their soccer strip ( 29 September ) . |
| 19 | She blames the manufacturers for the poor design of the container : probably deliberate , she reflects , probably calculated to make people splurge out far more than they need of the stuff . |
| 20 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 21 | ‘ My hope with some people is that they do n't stay any longer than they need to . |
| 22 | Bentham ( 1970 : 179 ) himself propounded the principle of ‘ frugality ’ ( or ‘ parsimony ’ ) , which states that punishments should be no more severe than they need to be to produce a utilitarian quantity of deterrence . |
| 23 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 24 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 25 | People complain that these tests seem to take longer than they need to . |
| 26 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 27 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 28 | These phenomena are so elusive , so debatable , so exploitable by the credulous and those who thrive on manipulating them that they drive more away from genuine religious experience than they attract to it . |
| 29 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 30 | The very idea of ‘ disciplinary cultures ’ is itself problematic , involving as it does not one but two rather elusive concepts ; and many disciplines appear less homogeneous to insiders than they look from the outside . |