Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | I 'd rather have that than nothing at |
| 3 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 4 | The second wife and her two daughters hated Vasilissa because she was so pretty and obedient , because her father loved her best , and , above all , because she was much more skilful than they at making lace , at spinning , and at knitting stockings . |
| 5 | This is not quite as straightforward as it at first appears . |
| 6 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
| 7 | However , we believe that readers will come to understand by the end of the book that combining the two stories is not as easy as it at first seems . |
| 8 | ‘ Bob , I understand now that nothing in life is as easy as it at first seems , and that being in love is a condition which can cause one a great deal of pain . |
| 9 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 10 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 11 | It is not clear at present exactly what the rules are in such cases , nor whether the choices of readings are as clear-cut as they at first seem . |
| 12 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 13 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 14 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 15 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 16 | Well , if you 'ave 'im two days at a time , it 's better than nowt at all in n it . |
| 17 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 18 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 19 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 20 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 21 | I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it . |
| 22 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 23 | This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all . |
| 24 | But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all . |
| 25 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 26 | No he was n't as , as , strong-wise he was hitting as well as you , but he was he was n't as , much better than you at all . |
| 27 | Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all . |
| 28 | Even one night with Patrick Kelly was better than none at all . |
| 29 | A simple , rudimentary , half-cocked eye/ear/ echolocation system/cuckoo parasitism system , etc. , is better than none at all . |
| 30 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |