Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardship allowances are paid as compensation to those expatriates relocated to countries where they have to face greater discomforts or difficulties than they would normally experience at home : climate , unstable political environments , isolation , separation from children , poor sanitation , and so on . |
| 2 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 3 | Social pressures upon them to be " good parents " are strong : to complain about the situation would indicate that they are less adequate as mothers or fathers than they should be . |
| 4 | There are more terrors to come , more mysteries and secrets than he could ever know . |
| 5 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 6 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of course , I had an eagle 's eye view of developments , knowing far , far more about their strengths and weaknesses than they individually could . |
| 9 | I think you will have found that this exercise produced more thoughts , images and ideas than you were able to use in what you finally wrote . |
| 10 | Animals with much simpler ears and brains than us can reduce the problem further by only responding to very narrow frequency bands . |
| 11 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 12 | Pence and pounds than it was to deal with the old pounds , shillings and pence . |
| 13 | The restaurant was decked with more stars and stripes than you could count , and the staff took great care to dress up for the occasion . |
| 14 | There are , it appears , more serious crimes being committed by white , respectable , well-educated , slightly older males and females than we are led to believe ( Box 1981a : 56–93 ) . |
| 15 | It 's always easier to talk about warts and carbuncles than it is to focus on beauty spots , but I hope to get the balance right this morning . |
| 16 | As that ability was still , in 1880 , much more purely a matter of armies and navies than it was later to become , it is worth while to consider them briefly before turning to the diplomatic story . |
| 17 | Low-grade malnutrition ( slightly fewer vitamins and minerals than you need ; too much fat and sugar and too little fibre ) can show itself in small , insidious ways . |
| 18 | Although it is hard to know how valid these comparisons are , it is clear that ordinary people in Britain have far more possessions and assets than they did in 1911 . |
| 19 | If there is a deficit on the current account , i.e. if we import more goods and services than we export , this deficit must be matched by a surplus on the capital account to make the account balance . |
| 20 | A closed economy can not dispose of more goods and services than it is currently producing , and the reduction in resources available for current non-government use is independent of the method of finance . |
| 21 | After more days and nights than he cared to remember , he was perched on a ledge , perhaps halfway up , unable to move up or down . |
| 22 | Markets allow individuals greater freedom of choice as producers and consumers than they can experience in any system of central planning . |
| 23 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |
| 24 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |