Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 2 | I do n't know about you , but that comment , which was surely not a carefully considered one , rings truer than any homily on the state of matrimony I 've heard on Oprah or seen embroidered on a sampler . |
| 3 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 4 | Consequently she has had more than enough practice at fielding some of the more banal of my questions . |
| 5 | There was also general , though not complete , agreement that hereditary monarchs ranked above merely elective ones ( in spite of the fact that the Holy Roman Emperor was himself elected , at least in form ) and that republics ranked lower than any kind of monarchy . |
| 6 | Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar . |
| 7 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 8 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 9 | Acheson added : ‘ I would accept [ using ] the average concentration [ rather than a maximum ] in relation to methaemoglobinaemia , ’ which goes less than half way to the justification that the DoE was seeking for a relaxation of the 50 mg/litre standard . |
| 10 | H.S. Lecky got less than half way through his The King 's Ships ( 1913–14 ) , giving a history , in alphabetical order of name , of the ships of the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | This sum is £1.30 ; in Birkenhead only 272 tenants pay less than this sum on a 20 per cent contribution . |
| 12 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 13 | Thus was made an archbishop who did more than any Archbishop of Canterbury since Stephen Langton of Magna Carta to make the Church more free in its relation to the State . |
| 14 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |
| 15 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |
| 16 | APT is impressive , not least because it comes nearer than any rival to retaining essential qualities of open outcry , a feat unmatched by American exchanges which profess the greatest attachment to traditional trading . |
| 17 | ‘ I have more than enough courage for both of us , cara . |
| 18 | Slicker though Swansea were , Harlequins gained more than enough possession through their dominance at the line-out and the innumerable penalties to have expected more from the game — certainly New Zealand 's All Blacks will drive a far harder bargain when they play Swansea on 21 October . |