Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale .
2 After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up .
3 After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up .
4 In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK .
5 These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class .
6 Kennedy was intent upon leading the Western World with an open-handedness that made Britain no more than just one of the Western European states .
7 Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling .
8 It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home .
9 But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers .
10 We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips .
11 ‘ Myth is alive at once and in all its parts , and dies before it can be dissected ’ , declared Tolkien , and his statement is more than usually true of The Lord of the Rings , as I have said on p. 100 above .
12 Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns .
13 All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her .
14 Thus , while Tough 's work may provide some interesting ideas for dealing with functional aspects of spontaneous speech , it may be less than entirely satisfactory as a means of obtaining reliable and objective assessment information .
15 This satisfaction is relative , one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result .
16 Certainly the scale even of French space operations , on a cost-per-inhabitant basis , is much smaller than either those of the USA or USSR .
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