Example sentences of "than [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 2 | But they are more than just that . |
| 3 | For all that , it is wise to know a little more about search than just that method , so here are a few relatively elaborate algorithms which are also sometimes useful . |
| 4 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 5 | Clearly , modern officials in the higher echelons of bureaucracy are involved in all stages of the policy-making process rather than just that of implementation . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 7 | ‘ There is more to being a woman and a Labour Party member than just that , ’ she says . |
| 8 | I 'm quite sure she said more than just that . |
| 9 | That is to say , it is more generally agreed here than elsewhere that preference for back realizations of /a/ , for example , indicate close personal ties , casualness of conversational type , and/or male identity , and that other realizations indicate greater social distance and/or female identity . |
| 10 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 11 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 12 | The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale . |
| 13 | With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility . |
| 14 | I am more confident than ever that recovery is under way . |
| 15 | It is truer than ever that art is not only a metropolitan phenomenon . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , you see , it is now more than ever that practising politicians need the help of disinterested trained historians |
| 17 | The renewed popularity of British music in America only made Branson more determined than ever that Virgin should , once again , have their own operation in the States . |
| 18 | At a meeting in Canton , China , on Jan. 16-17 , the science working group of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) declared itself more certain than ever that global warming was under way , but agreed that its full impact might be delayed by other human factors , including a limited cooling effect produced by sulphur pollution and ozone depletion . |
| 19 | Reviewing the latest research on the greenhouse effect , the science working group of the UN Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change ( IPCC ) has declared itself more certain than ever that global warming is under way — but agreed that its full impact may be delayed by other human factors , including a limited cooling effect produced by sulphur pollution and ozone depletion . |
| 20 | Mr Hooke says after talking to trade journalists at the Paris Air Show , he is more convinced than ever that Raytheon will move production of the 125 to America . |
| 21 | Despite good intentions and solid backing , the military published only fourteen papers with a circulation of about 70,000 copies , or little more than double that of Gudok alone . |
| 22 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 23 | Top position over the decade goes to Japan where the Nikkei Dow average rocketed by 875 per cent in dollar terms , more than double that of its closest rival , Italy . |
| 24 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 25 | In 1984 lending from Britain was more than double that of France , Germany and Switzerland combined . |
| 26 | Thus the proportion of all men belonging to occupational pension schemes is more than double that of women . |
| 27 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 28 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 29 | LVMH is the largest champagne company in the world with consumption of Moët et Chandon being more than double that of its nearest competitor . |
| 30 | ‘ The taxman will get more than double that . |