Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 2 | In particular , what about the point that people like to appear much more rational and in command of affairs than it sometimes seems from an outside viewpoint they really are ? |
| 3 | This means that in a sequence of HLH basic tones within an utterance , the pitch of a H tone , following after a L tone , will be lower than that of the preceding H tone , e.g. If you are not aware of this , you may think the language has more tone levels than it actually has . |
| 4 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 5 | It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment , bars , restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers . |