Example sentences of "[noun prp] than [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl , this Jane Bradley , was evidently far more involved with Patrick than she had suspected . |
| 2 | His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on . |
| 3 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 4 | Not Rhoda Brocklebank , even though she knew everybody , and was certainly more deeply linked with William Egan than she had admitted ; not her because she was not emotionally involved with the Pitts . |
| 5 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 6 | Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years . |
| 7 | Julia was picking up enough about English society to realise that all this made Caretaker of more consequence in Medewich than she had thought . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got more snow up here and all over the Swiss Alps than we have had in 50 years , ’ said Dr Othmar Buser , whose research centre is perched at 2,660m on the Weissfluhjoch above Davos . |
| 9 | In reconstructing the circumstances of the crash , the Mexican investigators concluded that the Falcon was actually 40 miles further away from ACA VOR than it had reported — i.e. , it was at 75 nmi when the pilot reported 35 nmi . |
| 10 | Her house in Dulwich was suddenly much further from Westminster than she had realised , and had to be sold . |
| 11 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 12 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 13 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 14 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 15 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 16 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 17 | Joseph Gamgee recorded that on his return from the Continent , Sewell said ‘ I have seen more lame horses while posting from Harwich to London than I have met with in all my journeys and during my inspection of veterinary schools and public places in France , Switzerland , Germany and Belgium ’ . |
| 18 | She 'd already found out much more about Puddephat than she 'd hoped — she 'd even got a promising suspect in the shape of Theo Sykes — and there was no point in banging on about her non-existent book outline . |
| 19 | Montenegro and Bulgaria were aggrieved to obtain less at Berlin than they had won earlier by fighting . |
| 20 | First , it drives Stavrogin even closer to Svidrigailov than I have suggested so far . |
| 21 | On my side , I burned with less envy of Charlie than I 'd imagined I would . |