Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [be] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 2 | ‘ No more anxious than you are for the return of the Earl of Gloucester , madam , ’ he countered . |
| 3 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 4 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 7 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 8 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 9 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 10 | This situation was worse for the Communist Party women than it was for the men . |
| 11 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 12 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 13 | He is also far more relaxed than he was for the majority of his Formula One career , laughing and joking with reporters and rivals . |