Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you get more recognition or coverage than you would have working by yourselves ? |
| 2 | No North London native could navigate the route with more speed and certainty than I do although my journey takes me , of necessity , from one plateglass shop window to another , and then via the rear-view mirrors of thirty-nine different cars , vans and buses . |
| 3 | In an account of the continuation school movement , written in the 1920s , he was credited , together with Sadler and Stanley Hall , as being the man who made ‘ the issue clear : either organize the adolescent life of the nation on liberal lines or reap the consequences in a citizen body less stable , less progressive , less sound in mind and body than it might be ’ . |
| 4 | Many left the sessions aware that they faced even greater problems over administration and documentation than they feared . |
| 5 | But in particular terms ( and in terms of ‘ kto-kogo ’ ) , economic rationality means that Romania must exchange its hard-earned capacity to manufacture steel or munitions for a dependence on the GDR , Czechoslovakia and the USSR which costs more in freedom and leverage than it saves in economic resources . |
| 6 | There is plenty of strategy here , but more heart and pain than you could possibly have room for . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , these kids still approach the major record companies in search of greater fame and fortune than they could ever hope to achieve by themselves . |
| 8 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 9 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 10 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 11 | ( 54 ) … and then your looks and movements will offer more vivacity and variety than they dare offer now . |
| 12 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 13 | We now spend less of our national income on education and science than we did in 1979 . |
| 14 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 15 | Also it could be said that the role of Equality Officer is , by its name , more open to being filled by man or woman than it was when it was known as Women 's Special Representative . |
| 16 | Mr Major , whom one suspects of more mischief and humour than he is credited with , has declared his old enemy to be ‘ Minister for the Little People ’ , which sweetly traps Mr Waldegrave between the cartoonist Pont and the leprechauns . |
| 17 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 18 | But , paradoxically , it is under more intense scrutiny and criticism than it has ever been . |
| 19 | If there is , it has to be at a deeper level of thought and interaction than we have so far identified . |
| 20 | Clearly many men are as capable of deep love and attachment as women , but usually more of their emotional energy is invested in their world of work outside the home , and unless a woman also has an outside career role and some interests separate from his , she relies much more on her husband for her happiness and fulfilment than he does on her . |
| 21 | For all those countries with whom we are failing to compete invest more in education , in science and training than we do . |
| 22 | The high level of enquiries resulted in another intensive year 's effort by the tendering teams which enabled us to submit more tenders by number and value than we did in 1991 . |
| 23 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 24 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 25 | He lacks confidence and would benefit from more active encouragement and support than he has received . |
| 26 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 27 | Many of the women who remained in the trade until their senior years eventually became readers , with higher pay and status than they had ever enjoyed before . |
| 28 | Within the workforce , unemployment was greater among immigrants from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan than it was among native-born citizens or those from other European countries . |
| 29 | Though determined as ever he had more wisdom and caution than he had years ago . |
| 30 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |