Example sentences of "than he be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently God is more committed to our character than he is to our comfort . |
| 2 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 3 | Leavis , who notoriously had no hesitation about attacking canonical figures , was closer to this tradition , however much he detested the belletrist spirit , than he was to later developments in academic criticism . |
| 4 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 5 | Even so esteemed a Church Father as Clement of Alexandria was actually , in many respects , closer to original Nazarean doctrine than he was to the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome . |