Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music . |
| 2 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 3 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 4 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 5 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 6 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
| 7 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 8 | Leeds-based Yorkshire TV , is axing 300 jobs — more than a quarter of its staff . |
| 9 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 10 | Some 16 per cent of trees lost more than a quarter of their leaves or needles last year , although Swiss forests are better off than their German neighbours , where the figure was 27 per cent [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 11 | One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . |
| 12 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 13 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 14 | For his concept of ‘ interpellation ’ fails to explain the mechanism by which subjects are constituted , and is really no more than a redescription of its own result . |
| 15 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 16 | The play is nothing more than a succession of her venomous attacks on the sons ’ girls and the sons ' unbelievably feeble attempts to fight back . |
| 17 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 18 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 19 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 20 | However , as this is not a treatise on the Venetian tradition , we will leave the subject here , with no more than a reminder of its possibilities . |
| 21 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 22 | " Who does not know " , said Alexander III in 1886 of Gorchakov 's successor , " that the pitiful Giers ( N.K. Giers , foreign minister 1881 – 94 ) is nothing more than an executor of my will ? " , while almost two decades later an even more self-effacing foreign minister had no doubt that " my duty consists in telling the emperor what I think about every question , and then when the Sovereign decides I must obey unconditionally and try to see that the Sovereign 's decision is executed " . |
| 23 | As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ . |
| 24 | Sloane Square , one of Time Zones 's three shorts , shot on Super 8 , and presumably chez Jarman , is no more than an album of his chums . |
| 25 | Innate robotic responses or patterns of rapid learning in animals may be nothing more than an extension of their basic instincts . |
| 26 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 27 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 28 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 29 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 30 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |