Example sentences of "than [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me . |
| 2 | I 'm happier at work than I am at home … |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | I am not sure whether I am more appalled at the prospect of the Labour party being in government than I am at the prospect of having the support of the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) and the Liberal party . |
| 5 | Rainbow , slower than I am on the uptake , inches away from Anya , and looks appalled . |
| 6 | I have no doubt that there are many colleagues more expert than I am on this subject already planning their drafts ! |
| 7 | I 'm more comfortable here than I am on holiday . |
| 8 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 9 | I am much more sympathetic to that proposal than I am to the opt-out proposal advanced by the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Look Karen , no one is sorrier than I am about what happened . |
| 11 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 12 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
| 13 | You think you 're better than I am in just about every way , more beautiful , more clever , more experienced . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 15 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 16 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | They 're much better informed than I was at their age . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm lighter now than I was at Tottenham . |
| 20 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 21 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 22 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 23 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 24 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 25 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 26 | I never expect to be more moved by a man and a horse than I was by Winter and Mandarin this afternoon . |
| 27 | My batman , who is a positive Jeeves , is with me and , truly , I am far less aware of being at war than I was in England . |
| 28 | I think it 'd be better it 's just than I 'm under a wee bit of pressure at the moment to be in thirty five different locations |
| 29 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 30 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |