Example sentences of "[det] than [pron] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |