Example sentences of "than [adj] thing at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 2 | She says ‘ no ’ more often , rather than suffering or withdrawing , and she is able to remind people of her difficulty in concentrating on more than one thing at a time . |
| 3 | I believe harmonic poverty is often caused by a student 's perfectly natural inability to think of more than one thing at a time . |
| 4 | On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time . |
| 5 | Their inability to do more than one thing at a time is only one problem . |