Example sentences of "[det] than [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Bangladesh boys are already producing more than they consume by the age of 10 and have repaid their parents ’ investment in their upbringing by the time they are 15 . |
| 2 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 3 | She blames the manufacturers for the poor design of the container : probably deliberate , she reflects , probably calculated to make people splurge out far more than they need of the stuff . |
| 4 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 5 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 6 | I gained infinitely more than I lost from the experience . |
| 7 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 8 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 9 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 10 | I shall argue that the concept of profession , even in its most radical formulations , obscures more than it reveals about the work people do , and that alternative concepts based on the specific practices of various occupational groups should be substituted . |
| 11 | No more than you get on the planes . |
| 12 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 13 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 14 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 15 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 16 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 17 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 18 | HOUSEHOLDERS in the lowest council tax bands in Fife and Borders regions will pay less than they did under the poll tax , but those in higher bands will find themselves worse off . |
| 19 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 20 | His dilemma lay ‘ in always having rather less than you need by the standards to which you are brought up ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 22 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 23 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |