Example sentences of "than [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he 's a year older than me is n't he ? |
| 2 | He 's he 's taller than me is n't he ? |
| 3 | Only the top three teams in the division have scored more goals than the Brockville side this season , but the fact that only Cowdenbeath have conceded more goals than them is the reason why relegation remains a distinct possibility . |
| 4 | Caring about others less fortunate than ourselves is important and the Christian Aid Committee is most grateful to all who give their time , talents , and money which gives this Festival of Flowers and Music such significance . |
| 5 | Her patron is male and she feels no qualms about rubbing shoulders with male chefs and passing orders to a commis who may be older than she is . |
| 6 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid Ivy did n't say anything interesting about Murdoch and Spark , except to say that the former is to be taken more seriously — than the latter , not than she is . |
| 8 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 9 | I KNOW that my mother , who is 36 , should be old enough to take care of herself , but sometimes I feel I 'm older and wiser , at 16 , than she is . |
| 10 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 11 | From the cleaners to the executive she sees that everyone has an important part to play , no one is more committed than she is both to the University and her pharmacological research . |
| 12 | When the pair begin to spawn , the male , who is smaller than she is , climbs on her back and clasps her around the throat . |
| 13 | Your uncle must be years and years older than she is , and anyway , I rather gathered she 'd got her sights set on some fellow whose name she would n't tell me . |
| 14 | Angharad is safer on the hills than she is indoors . |
| 15 | ‘ Camille 's much more like my mother than she is me . |
| 16 | Not many people are likely to learn if Julie 's partner is bigger or smaller than she is . |
| 17 | " He 's much older than she is . |
| 18 | He 's older than she is and probably a lot more experienced . |
| 19 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 20 | The kids are around more than she is . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , I 'm two or three years older than she is … |
| 22 | Her husband 's a lot older than she is . |
| 23 | I do n't think Amy Johnson will be over pleased that she that Amy get 's better than she is , no . |
| 24 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 25 | a dog 's better looking than she is so you 're in with a chance ! |
| 26 | she acts about ten years older than she is , I know that |
| 27 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 28 | I think I 'm more at risk than she is |
| 29 | The institutions that the finance director talks to are chosen on the basis of detailed share-register research , rather than who is free for lunch . |
| 30 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |