Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 2 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 3 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 4 | Fired by religious fervour and armed with weapons supplied by the United States and their Muslim neighbour Pakistan , the rebels resisted doggedly and fought a war in which their superior mobility and unconventional guerrilla tactics proved more than a match for the Soviet military machine . |
| 5 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 6 | The outbreak comes less than a month after the bug struck 11 children in the intensive care unit at Guy 's Hospital , London . |
| 7 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 8 | Some children grasp the idea of standing on a box or steps to become higher than a tower or other object that is taller than themselves , so that , intuitively at least , they have some idea of the distinction between taller than and higher than . |
| 9 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 10 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 11 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 12 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 13 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 14 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 15 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 16 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 17 | In burns — any third degree burn ( see below ) , any second degree burn ( blistering and loss of the top surface of the skin — very sore and painful ) occurring on sensitive skin ( face , hands , genitals ) or second degree burn larger than a hand size occurring anywhere else . |
| 18 | Although the revolt lasted less than a month and its effects were confined to a small region , Gubec became a folk hero to the peasants . |
| 19 | In the Netherlands , the task of refining and extending the revolutionary concept of the Woonerf and separately applying its most valuable elements continues more than a decade after its inception . |
| 20 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 21 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 22 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 23 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 24 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 25 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |
| 26 | Up in the Pennines , nine out of ten people of Staincliffe wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned less than a pound 's worth of moveables . |
| 27 | The results for those universities producing more than a total of 10 theses on Scottish geology between 1960 and 1983 are shown ranked as Table 5 — Changes in proportion of Scottish geology theses with time . |
| 28 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 29 | And every Saab dealer is now bound to down tools and help you out without prior booking if the job takes less than an hour . |
| 30 | Poor little Johann survived less than a month . |