Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , I felt better yesterday than I do now . ’ |
| 2 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 3 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 4 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | Not all small towns possessed governmental or administrative functions and even those which did more often than not combined them with others . |
| 6 | There was a choice of pylon style suitable for the routes , including the low height tower which had two rather than three crossarms and the modernistic folded plate tower which resembled a huge lamp post . |
| 7 | Would n't it take the wind out of his sails more thoroughly if she seemed indifferent rather than angry ? |
| 8 | Many of the community-based projects were developed by libertarian socialists , formed politically in the ‘ alternative ’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s , who rejected hierarchical and bureaucratic forms of organisation and who celebrated cultural rather than economic struggle . |
| 9 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 10 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 11 | In fact , as the winter wore on , she felt grateful rather than otherwise . |
| 12 | She felt sleepy rather than tired , as a result , she told herself , of having had so little sleep of late . |
| 13 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
| 14 | Probably they got better rather than risk his wrath by doing otherwise . |
| 15 | Other service-providers ( eg social workers , general practitioners ) were sometimes working towards a different outcome ; that is , they sought institutional rather than continued home care . |
| 16 | They seemed playful rather than aggressive . |
| 17 | He had done it so often , yet it got worse rather than easier : pain in the gut , sticky sourness in the back of the throat , thighs trembling with tension but the hands steady . |
| 18 | In this transition it became metaphorical rather than actual . |
| 19 | He seemed amused rather than offended by Ellen 's defiance . |
| 20 | She half expected him to be angry , but he seemed amused rather than annoyed . |
| 21 | He seemed uninterested rather than disapproving . |
| 22 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 23 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 24 | Soon he could no longer bear to apply the scorching lens to his right eye and was obliged to hold it to his left , which he did more clumsily than ever . |
| 25 | Kochan points out from 1895 to 1905 the strike movement grew , increasingly it had political rather than simple economic concerns . |