Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drivers had finally agreed to race : more or less coerced by their bosses ( including McLaren ) , 99 per cent of whom care rather less about safety than they should . |
| 2 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 3 | Sex differences are also less in actuality than they are in teachers ' perceptions , as self-report schedules demonstrate , and clearly depend on who is defining what as ‘ deviant , ’ ‘ disruptive ’ or ‘ disaffected ’ — that is , what and whose rules of ‘ normality ’ are being infringed . |
| 4 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 5 | Montenegro and Bulgaria were aggrieved to obtain less at Berlin than they had won earlier by fighting . |
| 6 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 7 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 8 | The behaviour of some animal rights supporters , who have sometimes appeared to care more for animals than they do for men and women , has also not commended their cause . |
| 9 | If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past . |
| 10 | Many Third World countries owe more in debts than they earn a year from exports : |
| 11 | They could increase their holdings of capital , by charging more in depreciation than they would have charged in principal repayments . |
| 12 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 13 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 14 | RESIDENTS are paying the new council tax quicker in Warrington than they paid poll tax . |
| 15 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 16 | Similarly , in a hollow , such as A , the sand grains are being driven faster towards B than they are arriving , thus accentuating the hollow . |
| 17 | ( ii ) Embryos tend to develop more slowly in vitro in the chemically defined media currently in use than they do in vivo , suggesting that optimal growth and development may require specific factors from the reproductive tract . |