Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ With actresses you 're getting more than a face — a character and a personality as well . ’ |
2 | If you 're casting more than a couple of rod-lengths it 's advisable to use a waggler if only to avoid tangles . |
3 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
4 | Both sides are gambling because the defendant may be paying more than a judge would award at trial . |
5 | In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives . |
6 | ACTRESS Lesley-Anne Down is planning more than a kiss under the mistletoe this Christmas . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
9 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
10 | The entire process was to take less than a month . |
11 | By then Leith was feeling more than a shade guilty that she was the one responsible for the two having met . |
12 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |