Example sentences of "[noun] than [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I do n't know anybody that knows more Dorset words than your |
| 2 | In real life , too , there was an intention ( perhaps stronger on her side than his ) that he should marry his landlady 's daughter , but nothing came of that because , on returning to Johannesburg , Herbert met Grace , who was in fact to become his first.wife and John 's mother . |
| 3 | The editors begin their Introduction by agreeing with Professor David Walker 's statement in the Scottish Legal System that Scottish legal history is closer to that of the Continent than its English counterpart . |
| 4 | Needing less downtime than my subject , I have plenty of spare energy . |
| 5 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 6 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 7 | ‘ It is also nearer the coast than our previous activities so offers different constraints of beaches , wildlife and vessel traffic . |
| 8 | I met him once , in the late 1980s , a year or so before his death , in a pub in Camden Town : he was a quick , if ageing , inquisitive and half-bolting creature : more for his thick spectacles than his literary associations , other drinkers in the pub called him ‘ The Professor ’ . |
| 9 | Equally , voluntary members of branch and Federation committees , many with far longer service to the Association than their tutor-organiser , can see that he remains true to the traditions of the WEA . |
| 10 | How can we have any other bodies and blood than our own ? |
| 11 | In these circumstances the British were able to exert more influence over the development of defence thinking than their physical strength strictly warranted . |
| 12 | He tried to think of a wife who had a larger car than her husband 's and he could n't think of one . |
| 13 | It was a faster car than their small Renault . |
| 14 | In practice for Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix , Mansell was more than two seconds quicker in the Oxfordshire Williams car than his nearest rival Ayrton Senna . |
| 15 | She feels her Australian temperament has left her with fewer inhibitions than her European counterparts . |
| 16 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 17 | Fabia could n't help picking up the air of excitement about her , and realised that she was n't the only one when barely had they sat down with a cup of tea than her father , an observant man , was asking , ‘ Are you going to tell us about it — or is it a secret ? ’ |
| 18 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |
| 19 | I know you found your tent , but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage ? |
| 20 | This analysis may also help to assess the extent to which the central contradiction in Anderson 's character , his apparently greater interest in football than his academic field of ethics , displays itself in conversation . |
| 21 | This perhaps was more obvious lobbying for Scott than his initiative over the Memorials . |
| 22 | It is possible that they have had some influence upon the Government of the UK during the 1980s , which has been markedly less disposed to intervene as directly in industry than its predecessors . |
| 23 | It is certainly true that UK banks have , in the past , tended to lend less to industry than their foreign counterparts . |
| 24 | This special five-year chart shows a more balanced result than our two-month version ( see page 67 ) ; here longer term , established titles mix it with the ‘ Big Names ’ . |
| 25 | Fineview and Perry South both received less investment than their share of units would indicate . |
| 26 | I was a better investment than my sister , because I passed the eleven-plus , went to grammar school , would get a good job ( university was later seen to offer the same arena of advantages ) , marry a man who would , as she said , buy " me a house , and you a house . |
| 27 | Really serious attention now had to be given to the reconstruction or replacement of the Company 's rolling stock and although the ex-Croydon cars were in better condition than their own , it was decided to rebuild the J type cars on the Sutton route and not to commission any more ex-Croydon cars for service . |
| 28 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 29 | My friend in the business pointed out that his guitar had a slimmer neck than its big rival . |
| 30 | Isidor Rabi — the great American physicist who , even more because of his belief in the unifying power of scholarship than his belief in physics , did as much as anyone to encourage CERN 's birth — would have approved . |