Example sentences of "be than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just shows you how much more important I am than them , does n't it ? ’ she laughed . |
| 2 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 3 | Surely the needs of the members should come before the administrative easiness of putting people into sections for the Union and as I 've said who better to judge where they need to go and what their needs are than the members themselves . |
| 4 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 5 | He could think of nowhere he would rather be than at home , with people he knew and trusted , in a place without secrets . |
| 6 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 7 | Besides , what nobler work of civilisation could there be than a child happily asleep ? |
| 8 | They are 56 : ‘ Sweet love , renew thy force ; be it not said/Thy edge should blunter be than appetite ’ which expresses a feeling of temporarily spent force . |
| 9 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 10 | What better example of devolution to the individual could there be than the provision in amendment No. 3 that |
| 11 | What better path could there be than through Iran and indeed , along Reza Shahs new railway ? |
| 12 | Society must ask how much more risk-averse it should be than the people it is trying to protect . |
| 13 | And there 's nowhere he 'd rather be than back in his native Enniskillen — where he can unashamedly lead life at a crawling pace . |
| 14 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 15 | You ca n't be than six . |
| 16 | This one foot , they must be than the other . |
| 17 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 18 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 19 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 20 | At primary school level the great majority of the 400 parents interviewed were more concerned with the school 's distance from home and how rough the children were than with class size and educational standards . |
| 21 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 22 | For various reasons , intellectual , historical and sexual , it was easier for her to accept things as they were than for Peter . |
| 23 | We have wept more over our sodden copy of The Way We Were than Streisand must have done on Robert Redford 's last day of filming . |
| 24 | Respondents were than asked whether their school 's report had been submitted to the LEA yet . |
| 25 | The specimens were than analysed using the method described previously for mucosal metabolism . |
| 26 | I hope you think that this is important more important to you as it were than it is , is to us because you the clubs and the sailing schools really really must take these sorts of messages on board , not perhaps all of that list there but I would pick out erm that the message that we want to get across to young people , I would pick out the words fun , the words challenging , the words safe , alright . |
| 27 | Usually a priest matters more by what he is than by what he says . |
| 28 | First , it appears that there may be no truth as to how many times more pleasant or painful one experience is than another . |
| 29 | It is less concerned with what law is than with what law does . |
| 30 | In words , the EQ of a given species such as a rhino or a cat , is a measure of how much bigger ( or smaller ) the animal 's brain is than we should expect it to be , given the animal 's body size . |