Example sentences of "[adv] be [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 2 | In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer . |
| 3 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 4 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 5 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 6 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 7 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 8 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 9 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 10 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I promise I wo n't be more than an hour . |
| 12 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
| 13 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 14 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 15 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |