Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 2 | This Spring , BBC2 is televising a Primetime production of one of the great theatrical stagings of the 1980s — Trevor Nunn 's landmark production of Othello , with Willard White in the title-role , Ian McKellen as Iago , and Imogen Stubbs as a more than usually childlike Desdemona . |
| 3 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 5 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 6 | A little to the west of Casa Litta is the church of San Vito al Pasquirolo , a church in a more than usually pretty Baroque style that once stood in meadow land , its position explaining the name — ‘ San Vito in the pasture ’ . |
| 7 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 8 | Although the authorities proceeded cautiously ( issuing the call to the colours at different times in different places and eventually promulgating appeals in no more than about half the provinces of the European part of the empire ) , trouble still ensued . |
| 9 | This second relationship arose from an ingenious cover-up to a less than wholly honest piece of political self-enrichment . |
| 10 | But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission . |
| 11 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |