Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 2 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 3 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 4 | The sky was now brighter than it had been earlier in the evening . |
| 5 | Both the drainage and the ventilation were better than he had been accustomed to . |