Example sentences of "[noun] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 2 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 3 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 4 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 5 | Sometimes — often , in fact — in the Western world , people consume more calories than they need to fuel the body with energy . |
| 6 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 7 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 8 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 9 | As a rule , the politicians of the mainstream right fight each other with more zest than they do the Socialists . |
| 10 | Almost irrespective of the form of the initial contract , separation and divorce are fairly easy and much less subject to opprobrium than they were a generation ago . |
| 11 | It is extraordinary that many more people have an inspection when buying a second-hand car than they do when purchasing a house . |
| 12 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 13 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 14 | ‘ Particularly after the privatisation of the buses , people are even more dependent on their cars than they were before , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The clubs would also be able to earn more revenue than they do now . |
| 16 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 17 | Chief Inspector Vic Williams says : ‘ People take more care making a cup of tea than they do driving . |
| 18 | ’ We feel that our political representatives require more guidance than they are currently getting . |
| 19 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 20 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 21 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 22 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 23 | And some fiction ; women must be writing better books than they seem to be publishing . ’ |
| 24 | A feminist psychologist 's interview with and administering of a questionnaire to a young woman have stronger demand characteristics than they would have with a woman her own age . |
| 25 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 26 | 2.00:THE participation of Chatam ensures that half of these are carrying more weight than they were originally alloted . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 28 | As in the conventional discipline , demographic imbalances are less among egalitarian feminist psychology 's subjects than they are among its practitioners . |
| 29 | Although the turnout was lower those who cast valid votes seemed to be slightly more inclined in this election to express preferences further down the list of candidates than they were in 1973 . |
| 30 | Spectators lining the route occasionally got closer to the action than they 'd anticipated . |