Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten , however , is engaged in more than simply relieving his own exasperation at Beijing 's procrastination . |
| 2 | There are so many essays and books about the so-called ‘ crisis ’ in English studies that I can do little more than simply explain my own beliefs and show how these underlie the Cox Report 's recommendations for a National Curriculum . |
| 3 | We also have it that effects do no more than dependently necessitate their causal circumstances . |
| 4 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 5 | They did not enter into lengthy explanations about the sanitary and social implications of such behaviour , because the recruit had more than likely spent his entire life spitting on the floor at home ; the recruit responded to an order backed up with the threat of violence . |
| 6 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 7 | RECESSION-HIT Britons are more determined than ever to take their annual holiday , leading travel agent Thomas Cook said today . |