Example sentences of "than [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was not a criticism of the redecoration scheme , any more than my remarks are a criticism of some of the Government initiatives . |
| 2 | The joy of the Christian life is that God recognizes and accepts my uniqueness , much more than my parents could ever have done . |
| 3 | When I 'm at school in England , I miss the place rather than my parents . |
| 4 | Gillian ( 4.6 ) was one of three children playing in the large paddling pool in the garden , when she commented ( whilst gently stirring the water with her feet ) , ‘ Oh , the water 's heavier than my feet . ’ |
| 5 | However , as one speechreader said to me , ‘ By using my eyes , I often find my way around large terminals and airports much more easily than my friends who can hear and who are automatically inclined to rely on announcements . ’ |
| 6 | Unlike Charlie 's , my will was n't stronger than my misgivings . |
| 7 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 8 | My MKM was more important than my fears . |
| 9 | The high proportion of programmed togetherness compared with free time is a feature of Swans tours , and I felt churlish on leaving restaurant lunches in mid-meal in order to see more and eat less than my companions wanted to . |
| 10 | My allowance is higher than my expenses therefore that 's jolly good , is n't it . |
| 11 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 12 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |
| 13 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 14 | Eton , however , meant far more to me than my relationships with others , or the learning I acquired or the games I played . |
| 15 | My mother told me I was more domesticated than my sisters . |
| 16 | it 's getting late mate yeah there 's better than my sandwiches , alright in n it dinner ? |
| 17 | It was different from Adrar only in that a main street , with post office and government buildings , replaced the square , but otherwise the sepia buildings were less than my expectations . |
| 18 | No time in my life , however , is more clear in my mind than my years in the Waaf . |
| 19 | I too am frequently taken to be older than my years . |
| 20 | In future I 'll try both to get the dates that are supposed to be in in there and get the copy into my mouth rather than my compatriots . |
| 21 | Nick thinks that her , Nick , Nick thinks that her books are much nicer than my books , you see . |
| 22 | ‘ Wolfgang 's route is harder than my climbs ’ , he admits . |
| 23 | She was the smallest ; her feet were no bigger than my hands . |
| 24 | Those appointments with myself have equal importance , perhaps more importance than my appointments with other people . |
| 25 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 26 | Their shared experiences over the past 2,000 years , he argues , bring them together more than their conflicts force them apart . |
| 27 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 28 | They like fishing more than their prayers perhaps . ’ |
| 29 | The model is a short-run model in which there is no economic growth and in which producers respond to changes in the demand for their products by changing the quantities they produce rather than their prices . |
| 30 | The narratives of the Passio Praeiecti and of the Vita Boniti both have their peculiarities , and it is possible that the appointment of Praeiectus and the retirement of Bonitus were less creditable than their hagiographers claim . |