Example sentences of "[noun] than [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never has Carrick been more lost for words than when he was approached in the Headingley committee-room after close of play by Reg Kirk , a former Yorkshire chairman . |
| 2 | Mares carrying their first fetus produce much higher levels of antibodies if the fetus is a horse than if it is a mule , the exact opposite of what one would expect . |
| 3 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |
| 4 | Far better that workers adopt an ‘ I ’ m all right Jack ’ mentality coupled with the chance to make a bit on the side than that they go on strike and make demands for higher wages in their main jobs . |
| 5 | By the end , or at least the last week , of the tour England ‘ B ’ were looking a much better all-round side than when they started . |
| 6 | Words presented visually or auditorily are less well recalled when they are similar sounding than when they are different sounding . |
| 7 | Better that she should suffer his anger and displeasure than that he should fall into the clutches of the lord of Parfois . |
| 8 | But I have a less romantic conception than when I started . |
| 9 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 10 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 11 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 12 | He had discharged one of them from the infirmary in no worse condition than when he had arrived . |
| 13 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 14 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 15 | The ability to view infant care practices in any other light than whether they help the infant in his basic struggle to live is , then , something peculiar to our own century and , within this century , to the technologically advanced countries in which infant and child mortality rates have now been reduced to comparatively insignificant proportions . |
| 16 | And where , where the president speaks publicly , then his orders are obviously much more likely to carry weight than if it 's simply behind , behind closed doors . |
| 17 | But if you can arrange for experienced selectors to be present then this may lead to a more objective assessment of the candidates than if you act alone . |
| 18 | Although if you are redundant or long-term unemployed you feel you have heard all of this before , the truth is that if you manage to keep alive some enthusiasm and initiative you have more chance of getting an interview than if you do not . |
| 19 | Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other . |
| 20 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 21 | When you are working on curved designs you should try to sort through your material and choose stems that are curved , as they will give a much more natural effect than if you have to use entirely straight pieces and encourage them to curl . |
| 22 | He always puts his foot in it and tends to cause more confusion when he opens his mouth than when he keeps it shut . |
| 23 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 24 | There is a famous passage in which he invites us to acknowledge that it would be better that a world of which no one would ever be conscious should contain beautiful objects than that it should contain ugly objects . |
| 25 | There is more variety and imagination than before and of course an opportunity to specify stricter flow and speed characteristics for these roads than when they were less differentiated . |
| 26 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 27 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
| 28 | It is better to go in when they are losing money than when they are making money ; then one has more muscle ’ . |
| 29 | If a number of employees insist on cash payment , an employer can not simply scrap his old cash-payment system , and so gains far less from instituting bank payment than if he can simply switch to bank payment as the general rule . |
| 30 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |