Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With studying the film it was alot more interesting than just reading the book . |
| 2 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 3 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 4 | Of course , there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience . |
| 5 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 6 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 7 | Removing a Windows application involves more than just deleting the icon from the Program Manager . |
| 8 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
| 9 | But cutting greenhouse emissions from transport will take more than just improving the efficiency of cars and trucks . |
| 10 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 11 | This both attenuates the force of the current occupationalist attack upon the liberal education tradition and suggests that occupationalist objectives will do little more than merely dilute the quality of the education which pupils might otherwise have received . |
| 12 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 13 | And what 's the point of spending money on them if , when it comes to the crunch , you have to act as a ‘ human filter ’ on daily call , lugging foam cartridges or whatever from your pump intake , dripping the sludge across the carpet and more than likely blocking the sink ? |
| 14 | Indeed , Mafouz looked as if he was about to do something far more dramatic than simply catch the thing . |
| 15 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 16 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |