Example sentences of "to [noun] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 2 | Almost irrespective of the form of the initial contract , separation and divorce are fairly easy and much less subject to opprobrium than they were a generation ago . |
| 3 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 4 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 5 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 6 | These are sentiments of the Stoics , and noble and inspiring though they are , there is even more advantage to misfortune than they show . |
| 7 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 8 | Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish , since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters . |
| 9 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 10 | That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages . |
| 11 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 12 | As a result of improved communications in every sense — be they electronic communications , our airports or any other form of communication — the regions of this country have never been closer to London than they are today . |
| 13 | ‘ Half the songs are more relevant to America than they are to Britain , ’ agrees Jim Bob . |
| 14 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 15 | As the deficit developed , it enabled the fruits of that revolution to seem greater to consumers than they really were . |
| 16 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 17 | The very idea of ‘ disciplinary cultures ’ is itself problematic , involving as it does not one but two rather elusive concepts ; and many disciplines appear less homogeneous to insiders than they look from the outside . |