Example sentences of "than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some publications are less impartial than they might appear , erring on the side of generosity . |
| 2 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 3 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 4 | There may be a matter of principle here for some of those who wish their authors to be concealed : such authors should not sound like the characters they invent , any more than they should express opinions . |
| 5 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 6 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 7 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 8 | Directors are more autocratic and powerful than they were — particularly in casting . |
| 9 | Phil Philips , deputy secretary of the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association , said : ‘ People in the industry are much better educated about AIDS than they were in 1987 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Most think they need far more than they actually do . |
| 11 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Berkeley School had taken on a little more than they had bargained for . |
| 13 | They get far more than they bargain for . |
| 14 | Weight categories ensure that individuals are more closely matched than they are in team events . |
| 15 | You will find that they open further than they did before . |
| 16 | I would now like to pursue the resemblance by claiming that blocks as such ( i.e. techniques which are solely performed to deflect attacking techniques ) , have no more place in karate competition than they have in boxing . |
| 17 | If we do it right , we can engage more soldiers than they would gain if they caught the lot . ’ |
| 18 | In the bathroom he peered in the mirror at the creases on his forehead ; surely they were deeper than they had been yesterday . |
| 19 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 20 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 21 | Anglia controls East Anglia lines of Network SouthEast serving the London commuter area more locally than they were being controlled by the Eastern at York . |
| 22 | Admittedly , conditions in the American academy are a little tighter than they once were , but what looks like stringency by American standards is still lavishness by British ones . |
| 23 | is stronger than they |
| 24 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 25 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 26 | Sir : The North-east publishers of Viz are nearer the truth than they realise with their soccer strip ( 29 September ) . |
| 27 | ‘ They are ten times easier to deal with today than they were six months ago , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 28 | Its manufacturers employ more workers in Guangdong than they do in Hong Kong ; its hotels are filled with tourists and salesmen en route for Peking and Guilin ; its accountants , bankers and lawyers service thousands of foreign firms wide-eyed about the profits which they believe will one day be made from a billion Chinese consumers . |
| 29 | While Lebanon 's Christians were demanding more territory , Protestants in the north of Ireland were safeguarding their future statelet within the United Kingdom by accepting less than they might have claimed . |
| 30 | But Burrows counters : ‘ Children need the security of knowing they have a mother who is bigger and stronger than they are , who is in control . ’ |