Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz Taylor 's courage in playing a woman older and ( then ) fatter than herself in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1966 ) was enough in itself to win her an Oscar . |
| 2 | Carried out nationally , this showed that almost ten per cent of urban African households now possessed radio sets ; in the rural areas , the audience was far more scattered and the figure lower than one in fifty . |
| 3 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 4 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 5 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 6 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 7 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 8 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 9 | A ‘ flight ’ of 446 ft ( 136 m ) has been recorded , during which the animal lost only 30–40 ft ( 10–12 m ) in height , a glide ratio of better than one in ten . |
| 10 | There 's plenty of room , as you can see , and I 'm certain that two hands must be better than one in a veterinary practice . |
| 11 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 12 | They seem to be able to cope with it far better than anybody in this group at the moment do n't they . |
| 13 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 14 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 15 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 16 | However , USL has recently claimed that it will configure Destiny to run applications of all persuasions — including Solaris — ( UX No 380 ) , Zander says ‘ if they can do that they 're better than anyone in the world . ’ |
| 17 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 18 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 19 | Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men . |
| 20 | You can probably stay at places that are older than anything in Australia — older than Australia itself . |
| 21 | Blond , Danish-faced Mary sat solemnly on the chancel steps with a Joseph smaller than herself in a striped towelling bathrobe and a towel tied to his head with plaited wool . |
| 22 | It is hard to see why a code in which GGC means glycine and AAG means lysine is either better or worse than one in which the meanings are reversed . |
| 23 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 24 | And , although being taller , broader , leaner , fitter than anybody in the whole SE postal district undoubtedly had something to do with it , he seemed to shine with that undefinable , but unmistakable , showbiz sheen . |
| 25 | She was stronger than him in every respect save the purely physical . |
| 26 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |