Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this cake mixture uses baking powder to make it rise rather than gradual incorporation of air while beating , make sure you do not overbeat the mixture or add more than the specified amount of baking powder — this would only serve to toughen the cake and make it heavy . |
| 2 | None of the proposals would raise overall retail sales or have more than a tiny effect on prices . |
| 3 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 4 | MANY readers have made enquiries about Treble Chance entries that cover more than the popular 16-match total . |
| 5 | I 've seen them all : Rolexes , snide Rolexes that look better than the real thing . |
| 6 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 7 | Ron Evans had the idea that we should interview her in a terrace street that bore more than a passing resemblance to the famous TV set . |
| 8 | It easily unlocked his heart , one that bore more than the usual share of tragedy . |
| 9 | This will mean adjusting the time outbound , and allowing more than a single drift on the outbound leg . |
| 10 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 11 | If you see and screen more than a certain target number of patients you will get paid more . ’ |
| 12 | It is cleaner , simpler to use , and performs better than the traditional alternative , a combination of mica and ceramic paste . |
| 13 | James Boiling also returned career-best figures in that game , and deserves more than a regular one-day place . |
| 14 | They moved more than 3,000 tonnes of soil and sourced more than a 1,000 tonnes of clean building rubble , completing this task by the middle of January 1990 . |
| 15 | Such ‘ comforts ’ included the wearing of their own clothes rather than pauper uniform , permission to give or to receive outside visits , for aged husbands and wives to share rooms , for men to smoke , women to receive additional rations of tea and to eat other than the prescribed diet . |
| 16 | These children on the whole had greater problems and cried more than the Hungarian children who had been coming earlier and for longer . |
| 17 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 18 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 19 | In 2 million square miles of ocean , and stretching wider than the continental United States of America , Indonesia 's geographical , legal and linguistic complexities have kept most of her , even today , effectively off limits to all but the most stubborn foreign travellers . |
| 20 | While appreciating better than the French journalists the improbability of direct plagiarism , English mathematicians were nonetheless indignant at the way in which the Academy had treated Smith . |