Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 2 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 3 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 4 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
| 6 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 7 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 8 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 9 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 10 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 11 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 12 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 13 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 14 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |
| 15 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 16 | Perhaps now , in the same way , Judith Cowan 's new range or work can also be effective in a climate which desperately seeks more than just a checklist of intention . |
| 17 | But it 's more than just a question of who the patients prefer to be treated by . |
| 18 | Mirth is close to creativity for to see the absurd in something is to twist reality around in a way creative thought is fashioned — a good jest is a delight and should be regarded as much more than just a bit of frivolity . |
| 19 | The full story of the WM & CR is more than just a recalling of the day-to-day running of a railway . |
| 20 | The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid . |
| 21 | This is more than just a case of increased differentiation in local voting behaviour . |
| 22 | But it 's more than just a problem of pollution . |
| 23 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 24 | However , one detects more than just a hint of resentment when he talks of the ‘ middle-class ’ , who , with their penchant for rationalisation and organisation , appear to have appropriated the game . |
| 25 | Other ways of making life more interesting for the housebound are the occasional holidays in the homes of various members of the family ; also offering to help them to entertain their friends in their own home to more than just a cup of tea , by arranging to take a pre-cooked , easily served meal round to them beforehand . |
| 26 | This suggest that the governance of Ulster is more than just a matter of security and that there are urgent needs for an independent environmental protection agency , subsidies for green farming , and more money in general for the administration of conservation . |
| 27 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 28 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 29 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 30 | But this is more than just a taste of the past . |