Example sentences of "harder than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration . |
| 2 | We carry no weapons , the guns are all in Taymouth Castle , but if they threaten us or fire on us ’ ( behind the yew the minister listened harder than ever ) , ‘ then we will reply in kind . |
| 3 | Nobody fought harder than Jimmy . |
| 4 | If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you . |
| 5 | The truth is that uphill the extra weight made it a little harder than walking , but the weight was not directly on my back , a fact that I appreciated . |
| 6 | It ai n't like I 'm scared , but to tell the truth , swimming , s a lot harder than I thought . |
| 7 | I have seized him by the hair of his head And shoved it into a bucket of water And I screwed his pistols up his arse A dam sight harder than I screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |
| 8 | They train harder than we play . ’ |
| 9 | Hardly any Iraqi combat aircraft have been destroyed , which means that they may still try to intervene in the land battle , or to hit harder than Scud missiles can at Israel and Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | ‘ You have to push it a lot harder than that . ’ |
| 11 | It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated . |
| 12 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 13 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 14 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 15 | Harder than … what are those birds that breed and people go to watch them ? ’ |
| 16 | Few have worked harder than this quartet to repair the links between Britain and Argentina broken by the Falklands War . |
| 17 | Mick bit the end of his pencil , harder than usual . |
| 18 | Almost as critical as the prospect of another ‘ smoking bimbo ’ popping out of the Clinton closet is the probable wild-card candidacy of the pint-sized , populist , anti-politics Texas billionaire , H. Ross Perot , who might hurt Bush harder than he would hurt Clinton . |
| 19 | In this America 's Cup , he has played the game harder than anyone . |
| 20 | Well , before the 1965 British Open he did practise harder than usual . |
| 21 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 22 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 23 | I am not an idle man , I have never worked harder than I do here . ’ |
| 24 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 25 | After the war , the army dumped thousands of these sets on cadet forces , where they were treated far harder than in any battle zone . |
| 26 | For example , every time the telephone or doorbell rings , pause for two seconds before answering ( you may find this simple exercise harder than it might seem ! ) ; or , if you find yourself in a heated discussion or argument , count from ten to one before responding . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone in the industry is working harder than ever before , just to win the same amount of business . |
| 28 | With a snarl , Fox spun around and slapped him , harder than necessary . |
| 29 | Fox closed her shields down , tighter and harder than ever before , so that even her timesense was cut off , but still , now that Mouse had betrayed it , still she could feel the shimmery fragile links running between her and this stupid lackwit empath , this mutant mongrel animal — |
| 30 | Angina occurs when the coronary arteries have become narrower very gradually and is only noticed when the heart has to work harder than usual . |