Example sentences of "[adv] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 3 | I mean she 's got two children to dump on me so , I do n't feel bad about that in , that we know , we decided that 's what we , we did n't mind doing and there no trouble , if fact they 're less trouble cos they 're together than they are |
| 4 | Recently , composer-conductors like Pierre Boulez or Oliver Knussen have cajoled orchestras into playing better than they ever knew how , by extending their technique , especially in contemporary repertoire . |
| 5 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 6 | Things are , of course , better than they were . |
| 7 | Dogs understand each other better than they understand people . |
| 8 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 9 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 10 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 11 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |
| 12 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 13 | The prize , a box of chocolates , looked from the outside , a jolly sight better than they tasted . |
| 14 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 15 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 16 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 17 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 18 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 19 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 20 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
| 21 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 22 | L7 give better than they get , but the kids do n't get it at all . |
| 23 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 24 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 25 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 26 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 27 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 28 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 29 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 30 | and the changing of the licensing laws and I think , traditionally now more Scots enjoy Christmas better than they |