Example sentences of "than they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Anthony Alexander , the group 's chief operating officer in Britain , put it , ‘ If we think we can get more for them than they are worth to us , we will sell . ’ |
| 2 | It is unlikely that any attempt will be made to recover the tent and seats , as this could cost more than they are worth . |
| 3 | In truth defectors are far more trouble than they are worth . |
| 4 | Illegible notes are more trouble than they are worth . |
| 5 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 6 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 7 | It is the programs that have been written , and these packaged programs have got to be fairly close to your business in order not to be very frustrating and more bother than they are worth . |
| 8 | Clearly , the divisions among this group of short-term markets will be even less watertight than they are between these and the capital markets . |
| 9 | In fact , blood revenge and warfare are more intense between the constituent subgroupings than they are between them and other groups . |
| 10 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 11 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 12 | ‘ Half the songs are more relevant to America than they are to Britain , ’ agrees Jim Bob . |
| 13 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 14 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 15 | While a radical feminist like Millett can argue that ‘ male and female are really two cultures , and their life experiences are utterly different ’ , Marxist feminists would argue that the life experiences of middle-class women are much closer to those of middle-class men than they are to those of working-class women . |
| 16 | Certainly , among extreme Ulster unionists we continue to find a discourse of antiCatholicism which employs scriptural apocalyptic images which one suspects would be more readily comprehensible to late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century audiences than they are to most twentieth-century ones . |
| 17 | Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish , since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters . |
| 18 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 21 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 22 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 23 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 24 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 25 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 26 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 27 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The suspension settings are stiffer than they are on the Tercel , and with the option of Toyota 's TEMS electronic damping the spec sounds good . |
| 29 | Er particularly if you look just at the ordinary wall fronts the front wall the stones are very much more heavily eroded there than they are on this this the aisle here . |
| 30 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |