Example sentences of "[noun] than [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Aussie beamed : ‘ Leigh are a lot better side than I thought and there is a great deal more football in the team than I was led to believe . ’ |
| 2 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 3 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 4 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 5 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 6 | However , others saw in it greater advantages than we had and were keen to invest . |
| 7 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , women have more independence than they had and that will influence their decision as to whether or not they wish to leave a marriage . |
| 9 | No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan 's contents . |
| 10 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 11 | Do you take more newspapers each day than you need and do you really need them to be delivered ? |
| 12 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 13 | Nicholson had feared that his hurdling star might be tapped for speed on faster ground than he likes and around this sharpish track , but Mighty Mogul passed this major test with flying colours . |
| 14 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 15 | I noticed that this did not feature in their party political broadcast , wrongly entitled ’ Made in Britain ’ and alleging that virtually nothing was made in Britain , when we not only have the successes mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury , South ( Mr. Sumberg ) in his constituency but export far more television sets than we import and make the best hi-fi in the world , and when one in ten personal computers sold in the world are made in this country — in Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 17 | The Minister , who has access to more information than I have and who is ably supported by his civil servants , may be able to give us more news on that front this morning . |
| 18 | We 've both been married twice , although he has more children than I do and I 'm very jealous of that . |
| 19 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 20 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 21 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 22 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 23 | But that would seem to imply that only if a rich peasant rents out more land than he owns and works either by himself or hired labour , he will be able to keep that all . |
| 24 | No sooner has it reached A than it reverses and goes to B , returns to A and so on . |
| 25 | Answer : manufacturing a battery uses 50 times more energy than it generates and the mercury it contains is an atmospheric toxin , especially if the battery is incinerated after disposal . |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 27 | They always have some excuse , but Russia has far worse facilities than we have and how many players have they got in the top fifty ; three men and three women ? |