Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [is] [adj] " 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 | Go left to reach the small square of Piazza Sant' Eufemia , where across a small lawn that is longer than it is wide and bordered by tall conifers , you will see the church that gives the piazza its name . |
| 3 | It is longer than it is wide , and it is modelled directly on the Parafoils . |
| 4 | It is usually 2 or 3 times longer than it is wide , and can measure anything from 12′ to 24′ long and 6′ to 8′ wide ( 3.66/7.32 × 1.83/2.44m ) . |
| 5 | A herring , for instance , is much " taller " than it is wide . |
| 6 | These days Charlotte Amalie is getting more excitement than it is used to , or wants . |
| 7 | There is urgent need to determine the limits of production … if we are to avoid the danger of trying to extract more from the land than it is capable of yielding . |
| 8 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 9 | One problem lies in the fact that the space is considerably wider than it is long and this means that any design needs to lead the eye away from the all-too-close rectangular boundaries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 15 | The Builder pointed out that although Scott ‘ has sought not the style of any particular country , but Gothic in abstract , and gathered from the works of all countries ’ , perhaps because of the numerous secular mediaeval buildings in Italy , the character of his design ‘ is more Italian , or at least Continental than it is English ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The impact on financial reporting is not easy to assess because the exercise is more concerned with rationalizing the SSAPs to fit current reporting practice ( as determined primarily by the law ) than it is concerned with changing current reporting practice by implementation of SSAPs . |
| 18 | Right , and if the slope of that average product curve , right is negative that implies the marginal product of labour is less than it 's average product hence if the slope of the average product curve is zero that implies therefore the marginal product equals the average product of labour . |
| 19 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 20 | It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates … |
| 21 | Now this means that this part of the globe the bit nearest to the moon will have more than it 's fair share of gravity because it 's got the gravity of the earth and it 's got the gravity of the moon pulling all the sea which will cause the erm sea to bulge up in this region . |
| 22 | This part of the earth which is a long way away from the moon it 's as far away from the moon as you can get the opposite side of the earth , has got less than it 's fair share of gravity from the system because it 's so far away from the moon . |
| 23 | To their fellow disciples they quoted the words of Jesus , ‘ all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the psalms concerning me. ’ ( v.44 ) The Word of God declares Moses to be the writer of Genesis and if evolution is true than he is guilty of fabricating a pack of lies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 27 | ‘ Extortion by colour of office occurs when a public officer demands and is paid money he is not entitled to , or more than he is entitled to , for the performance of his public duty . |
| 28 | ‘ Extortion by colour of office occurs when a public officer demands and is paid money he is not entitled to , or more than he is entitled to , for the performance of his public duty . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |