Example sentences of "than [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was saying to Trevor it 's it 's not very nice but it 's rather so much better than than than having a cot death is n't it ? |
| 2 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 3 | The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle . |
| 4 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 5 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 6 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 7 | The court held that this was a breach of the Convention guarantee of free speech , because it would deter journalists from contributing to public discussions of issues affecting the life of the community : " The limits of acceptable criticism are wider as regards a politician as such than as regards a private individual … the former inevitably and knowingly lays himself open to close scrutiny of his every word and deed by both journalists and the public at large , and he must consequently display a greater degree of tolerance . " |
| 8 | It was fortunate that Nigel was never happier than when given a problem . |
| 9 | There 's a saying that ‘ a man never reveals his character more vividly than when portraying the character of another ’ . |
| 10 | The old adage ‘ Buyer Beware ’ is never truer than when buying a horse or pony . |
| 11 | However , I prefer NO COMEBACKS , not badly treated on just a 4lb higher mark than when landing a comfortable victory at Redcar last month . |
| 12 | John Webber 's gelding is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Festival in March . |