Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 2 | As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits . |
| 3 | Heat has entered the debate because the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) has submitted secret advice to the Home Office which claims that deaths after an attack may be lower than almost any published estimate — and certainly lower than those predicted by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) , which has the statutory responsibility to advise the government on radiation hazards . |
| 4 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 5 | AROMATHERAPY is more than just another alternative therapy . |
| 6 | The Queen 's arrival at the New Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes was the beginning of more than just another royal visit . |
| 7 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 8 | Not more than so many other things . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you see , it is now more than ever that practising politicians need the help of disinterested trained historians |
| 10 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 11 | Its wide range of properties makes it more flexible than probably any other substance on earth . |
| 12 | They sit here day after day , gazing out into the middle distance , letting their problems stockpile to nothing more complicated than yet another sunny day on the porch of a listing old house . |
| 13 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |