Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who were kind now would remember him in future — if for nothing else than the thank-you letters . |
| 2 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 3 | ‘ I hate it when people talk about me rather than to me . |
| 4 | She was still talking about me rather than to me , so in a way I was glad I had n't used any of my real names . |
| 5 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 6 | Such nurses need to benefit from an individual appraisal and assessment of their experience and skills so that re-entry becomes a natural progression for them rather than a hurdle to be jumped . |
| 7 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 8 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 9 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 10 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 11 | It has chosen to steer a middle course between them rather than undertake a strategic review . |
| 12 | On modern totalitarianism there is a kinship of interest between them deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars . |
| 13 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
| 14 | Oh God , I hope my belly spoke for me better than my fucking brain , in other words . |
| 15 | to enable us to cope we have find space for ourselves , do something , purely for ourselves rather than always be thinking about our children , thinking about the home thinking about the family , we 're as important and I think that 's what people must realize to begin with . |
| 16 | Nobody looks after you better than Allied — we look forward to showing you around . |
| 17 | The boy 's mother was from the Landes region , and Grégoire took after her rather than after Jean-Paul : he was very thin , very tanned , with a narrow solemn face , and thick black hair . |
| 18 | And yet does n't Shetland does n't seem so difficult to un maybe it 's because we 're Orcadian but Shetland does n't seem to be so difficult to understand for somebody outside than Orcadian is I wonder why ? |
| 19 | John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc is another name that has been canvassed , and he is the exception that proves the rule that an outsider ca n't run a computer company , but he came in fascinated by the business and devoted all his efforts in the early days learning about it for himself rather than relying on his minions , something no-one taking over IBM now has time to do . |
| 20 | Austerity measures caused violent public demonstrations [ see pp. 37472 ; 37929-30 ] , during which more than 1,000 people were arrested . |
| 21 | East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August . |
| 22 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 23 | The winners of the Stableford competition will be invited on a hot air balloon flight which is sure to give those who do not relish the though a good excuse for their less than perfect scores . |
| 24 | Nonetheless there are titles for which more than one source of information needs to be consulted — either because the titles are borderline choices , and/or because one source does not give all the information needed . |
| 25 | Then one morning I saw a figure coming towards me faster than any man could go . |
| 26 | But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors . |
| 27 | The research of Rowe and Lambert ( 1973 ) undoubtedly led to a major reform in child care policy and practice by documenting through its research findings the plight of children in care , of whom more than 50 per cent were accommodated in residential settings . |
| 28 | The research conducts experimental work with more than 600 participants , of whom more than 500 are not in category |
| 29 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 30 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |