Example sentences of "than [pron] [is] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would be very surprised if that ‘ lovely woman ’ of yours does n't know a little more than she 's prepared to admit — even to you ! ’ |
| 2 | Condition ( 1 ) is regarded as necessary because it is clearly not legitimate to conclude that all metals expand when heated on the basis of just one observation of a metal bar 's expansion , say , any more than it is legitimate to conclude that all Australians are drunkards on the basis of one observation of an intoxicated Australian . |
| 3 | Much more data are collected than it is possible to publish , and access to this additional information is just not possible — indeed its existence may not be known or recorded , with the result that future researchers and revisers have to go through the whole data collection procedure again each time . |
| 4 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 5 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 6 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the implications of senior and middle-ranking officers drawn from an array of army units suggests that the General is less secure than he is prepared to admit . |
| 8 | A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party . |
| 9 | If the person seems likely to overreact to the abuse or insults , and to use more force than he is entitled to employ , then it is likely that unlawful violence will be used , and the offence is committed . |
| 10 | But they contain more plain truth than he is able to recognise . |
| 11 | You feel there 's always more going on underneath the surface than he 's prepared to let on . |
| 12 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |