Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 2 | ‘ If a folder has a lot of stuff in it , it sounds bigger than one which is fairly small . |
| 3 | The question that McDowell is pointing to , however , is whether , in the analysis of human communication , Grice 's contribution concerns more what it is to be human than what it is to communicate . |
| 4 | I spent every last penny of my hoarded misery that night , blew eighteen years ' worth on one split second , and it felt better than anyone who is not a fan can ever be expected to understand . |
| 5 | He is humiliated at Satis House but also feels slightly guilty about wanting more than what he is lucky to have . |
| 6 | This book is refreshing in its simplicity , in that it does n't pretend to be anything more than what it is — a love story . |
| 7 | I said he ca n't take any more than what there is cos there ai n't no more |
| 8 | However , the basic thing for me is that most piano music is far more than something which is tailor-made for a certain instrument . |
| 9 | The person who is feeling stable , confident and optimistic is far less likely to mind being alone than someone who is still reeling from a major bereavement or break-up . |
| 10 | Do n't make him worse than what he is ! |
| 11 | To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life . |
| 12 | By making language do other than what it is designed to do in its original context , parodic manipulation undermines its illocutionary force rather than its explicit semantic content . |
| 13 | Rule 1 The module version is not the object of any tight coupling relationship from any module other than itself which is magnetically available . |
| 14 | wider than what it is |