Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 2 | I was younger than LBJ , at least to start with , and I 'm definitely older than JFK , who 's even handsomer than I am . |
| 3 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 4 | Normandin was a precious link to that other world that held John and I was more excited than nervous as we walked to his apartment near the Champs-Elysées . |
| 5 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 6 | She lives down in Atlanta and she 's way older than Francis , is n't she ? |
| 7 | She was frowning a little as if trying to concentrate , and she was even paler than before . |
| 8 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 9 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | THEIR TITLES are still mad and they 're still nastier than anyone really needs to be . |
| 11 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 12 | They first appeared on the television in the mid 60s. 25 years on , The Thunderbirds are back and they 're more popular than ever . |
| 13 | They are protected at the cash additions that they had er , or originally and they are somewhat higher than the erm , actual , erm , indirect per percentages would be . |
| 14 | They speak Spanish , they are familiar with local conditions and they are much cheaper than equivalent US personnel . |
| 15 | They have a greenhouse , and he keeps adding to that — he 's a handy man , is Duncan — and they are always earlier than anyone else around here . ’ |
| 16 | Science promises rewards later in this life , and they are more certain than those of religion . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , some of the Ife castings are of unalloyed copper and they are more successful than similar castings in leaded zinc-brass . |
| 18 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 19 | Yet months could go by without such a meeting , and they were less regular than those of , for example , the National Coal Board chairman . |
| 20 | I had gone through auditions before and they were much tougher than that . |
| 21 | I think these kind of comments are most unfair , as Andrew has a very exciting fast court game , and he is still more than capable of producing some good results . |
| 22 | I think he 's a charming man and he 's certainly better than Major or Kinnock , who both give me the creeps . |
| 23 | And he 's never happier than when he 's falling flying , floating through the air . |
| 24 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 25 | It was a year now since she had seen him , and he was more handsome than ever . |
| 26 | text , picture , and it 's still smaller than the pictures that run every day in these oversize English papers . |
| 27 | The British Open is the finest major in the world and it 's much fairer than ours . |
| 28 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 29 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 30 | It 's not cheap but the dispenser means a little goes a long way and it 's more hygienic than a pot . |