Example sentences of "[conj] than " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 2 | This jealousy may be felt to be like Othello 's in having more to do with difference of race , and with the jealousies of race , than the jealous man , or than the work he belongs to , seems disposed to state . |
| 3 | Force O'Neill to CONCEDE MORE THAN HE WANTS TO OR THAN HE THINKS HE CAN DARE GIVE without risking overthrow by the more reactionary elements among the Unionists . |
| 4 | Do not rely on flying beacon to beacon — there are n't many , and the mountainous terrain makes reception much more difficult than you might imagine or than Bottlang would suggest . |
| 5 | Using more than planned : Time and again the family member gives more time and money and other forms of support to the primary sufferer than he or she can afford or than was intended . |
| 6 | The swing of 24.7 per cent to the Liberal Democrats was larger even than that at Eastbourne in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , or than the swing to Labour at Mid-Staffordshire in March of that year [ see pp. 37328-29 ] . |
| 7 | This was probably cheaper than setting or marking exams locally or than employing an individual solely for the purpose . |
| 8 | Horizontal equity is met more nearly by a wealth tax than by a higher income tax rate on unearned income ( income from property ) or than on income from work . |
| 9 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 10 | well certainly one could do that , but it , it , it would preferably if my suspicions if er imposing perhaps not the right word , er define er at the outset we erm the time limits that er are envisaged for the obtaining of magistrate licence or than that I 'm |
| 11 | He gave them far more money than the business was worth or than they should ever have got their hands on . |
| 12 | Our aim is nothing less than than to make Britain the best trained and educated nation in Europe . ’ |
| 13 | Malachy Smith , managing director of Wang in Ireland and a former player , said : ‘ We discontinued our South African operation more than than seven years ago and have no ties with that country . ’ |
| 14 | Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 15 | Workstations grew , but more slowly than than in recent quarters . |
| 16 | This is seen as a shade different from the enforcement of a sentence as such ; and there can be a practical difference where , as is often the case , the enforcing State keeps the confiscated property rather than than transmitting it to the State in which the order was made . |
| 17 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 18 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 19 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 20 | They invest them in various ways and at the end of the day you can use that erm policy to actually top up your pension or provide for increased family benefits and because it 's a the administration costs er costs are sort of less than than you get with erm you know sort of taking out a policy with an individual company , on a one off basis . |
| 21 | What I what I what I would say is something I found in in BES has happened while I 've been here much less now than than earlier on , is engineers robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 22 | Well we had we had a lot of snow in those days , far more than than there 's been since then . |
| 23 | I think there are much more pleasant ways of people living than than this erm set up that they have . |
| 24 | Erm b I mean certainly I I would think that this government erm has less care for er the poor than than other governments would have . |
| 25 | Yeah would you would you say that it 's erm it 's A , more of a problem in places such as Flats , anyway than than say ? |
| 26 | Now what I 've actually also got on the photocopy , and I think I 've even got less sheets than than for this one I think I 've only got three booklets . |
| 27 | Well it it it was based er basically on the fact that they could earn more money than than most tradesmen in the yard at that particular time er I would say that . |
| 28 | Although there were more colonialism in , in America than than we were in well are now anyway but er in , in a way that was the sort of impression . |
| 29 | The ex the extra cost of privatization is going to be one heck of a lot more than than without any privatization , in that year we 're talking about immediately , is it not ? |
| 30 | . It was rather shorter than than everybody else 's . |