Example sentences of "than [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 2 | We have to consider factors other than merely resources . |
| 3 | The range of public library services , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , is now much broader than merely books and readers , and perhaps these logos should have made more attempt to reflect this greater concern for information services in the widest sense . |
| 4 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 5 | But we will endeavour to represent our members and to push for their ordinary rights , their just rights more than just rights they , are earned rights and should be afforded to them . |
| 6 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 7 | ‘ I want more than just weekends . ’ |
| 8 | This involves more than just values , but where you are going , your direction , your knowledge and understanding of God 's purposes for you personally . |
| 9 | But Oshkosh is much more than just warbirds , the cream of the US airshow acts are one of the big attractions for the general public . |
| 10 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 11 | The certain mystique it had was much more than just Cowboys and Indians on television . |
| 12 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 13 | Keeping the fabric of history : Taking care of old clothes requires more than just mothballs , writes Jo Levin |
| 14 | ‘ Considerably more than just guns , ’ said the Doctor . |
| 15 | Much more than just cousins . |
| 16 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 17 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 18 | Money is more than just notes and coin . |
| 19 | Her vision was starting to blur , with something more than just tears . |
| 20 | Both these publications cover much more than just books and the International Bibliography is very good for foreign language journal literature . |
| 21 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 22 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
| 23 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 24 | You now offer a lot more than just negotiations on pay . |
| 25 | This hospital , said the chaplain , ‘ is far more than just bricks , wood and plaster , we are talking about a family — a community of nurses , doctors , auxiliary staff , domestics and patients — ‘ a team ’ . |
| 26 | We feel it to be important to dedicate an appeal like this , as the house is more than just bricks and mortar ; it takes a central place in the history of Simon . |
| 27 | You 'll find there are more than just sausages . ’ |
| 28 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
| 29 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 30 | Chapel services were , or should be , more than just opportunities to hear a sermon : when Major J. B. Pond , the American entrepreneur who arranged lecture tours for British writers visiting America , came to London in 1879 , he visited Spurgeon 's Metropolitan Tabernacle . |