Example sentences of "[noun] than they [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 2 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 3 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 4 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 5 | Yet , without minimising the very real material and political benefits gained by ordinary working-class people in the 1940s , one must recognise the qualitatively ambiguous nature of these welfare innovations : a National Health Service which greatly benefited working-class women and children but also consolidated the power of an elite of consultants ; secondary education for all , but qualitatively differentiated , with selection by and large on grounds of social class , and the independent sector left intact ; a comprehensive social security system , but with benefit rates no higher in relation to average earnings than they had been in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Henceforward , at least in theory , the highest echelons of society were less likely to be permeated by gifted but landless bureaucrats than they had been in the past . |
| 7 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 8 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |
| 9 | Although there was no hope that her own son and his intimates would forgo their day 's sport , there were those less inclined for the hunt than they had been in their younger days . |
| 10 | He thought that they would be happier under the cockpit awning than they had been in the water . |
| 11 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 12 | In the first place , the ownership of land and the occupation of farms was concentrated into far fewer hands in the eighteenth century than they had been in the medieval village . |
| 13 | They show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages , but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth . |
| 14 | The subjects with influenza were 13% slower in performing the repeated numbers detection task than they had been on recruitment ( recruitment value 555 ( SD 79 ) ms , symptomatic value 627 ( SD 132 ) ms , asymptomatic value 550 ( SD 32 ) ms ) and were significantly slower than the healthy controls ( recruitment value 565 ( SD 60 ) ms , repeat value 544 ( SD 88 ) ms , second repeat value 549 ( SD 72 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |