Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 2 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 3 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 4 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 5 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 6 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 7 | He added , ‘ I paid top dollar , but it 's a good thing I did , because there were two other people who were after the plane and I just moved quicker than they did . ’ |
| 8 | Ten minutes later , Mr and Mrs Crumwallis , returning earlier than they expected from the wine and cheese do , heard even from their quarters the noise from the boarding section . |
| 9 | Er particularly if you look just at the ordinary wall fronts the front wall the stones are very much more heavily eroded there than they are on this this the aisle here . |
| 10 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 11 | Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums . |
| 12 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 13 | The rest die better than they kill . |
| 14 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |
| 15 | They 're worth watching and they deserve better than they 're getting , but they 've got to sharpen up in front of goal . |
| 16 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |
| 17 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 18 | I think I do it because I 'm so depressed by the poor performance of professional investment managers in the city , and I hope I can do better than they can . |
| 19 | Finally , you have to believe that you can do better than them . |
| 20 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 21 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |
| 22 | sober he can do more than they do I mean i that ai n't the sort bloke you wan na lose , and I 'm , when he balls and shouts at them well he gets on your nerves really but at the end of the day I 'll you know , I 'll put up with it . |
| 23 | It amounts to a lack of faith in a God who has done more than they could have dreamed of to demonstrate his own faithfulness . |
| 24 | They 've done more than they should 've really . |
| 25 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 26 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 27 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 28 | The most efficient recyclers would thus have an incentive to go further than they would otherwise do . |
| 29 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 30 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |