Example sentences of "[adv] than [pers pn] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 2 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 3 | Centralized government , Whitehall as the founder of all regulation and one party in perpetual power is an obvious recipe for incompetence , even more than it is for tyranny , although bureaucratic tyranny and arrogant assumptions of having no need to listen do produce threats of tyranny . |
| 4 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 5 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 6 | Therefore it is no more satisfactory for Muslims or anyone else to have a syllabus which does not mention Allah anywhere than it is for Jesus , God and the Bible to be omitted . |