Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must look worse than a dowd . |
| 2 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |
| 3 | The flight to Edinburgh should take less than an hour . |
| 4 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 5 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 6 | And yet the horizontal moon might look bigger than the meridian moon in the other , non-objective , sense of ‘ looks ’ . |
| 7 | As there were cars to spare , if one was found with a defect , for which a replacement part might cost more than the cost of a licence , it was withdrawn particularly if the route on which it worked was nearing its closure . |
| 8 | Secondly , it allowed them to make virtue out of a necessity by pushing law and order once more ideologically centre-stage as another area where the individual could do more than the State . |
| 9 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 10 | As she walked to it , Huy wished that he could see more than the slit in the dress revealed . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it 'd take more than a lot of nomes and some string to fly it , anyway . ’ |
| 12 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 13 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 14 | Firelight shone on festoons of holly , making the berries glow like rubies , and nothing could taste better than the chicken and the plum pudding Mrs Martin had cooked . |
| 15 | ‘ To be honest , at first I did n't have a clue how long I 'd stay , ’ says Bassett , ‘ so I can understand why some locals did n't think I 'd last more than a season or so . |
| 16 | A number of software vendors such as Bitstream , Adobe and Microsoft themselves can supply extra fonts but they may cost more than the budget user can afford . |
| 17 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 18 | In 1989 Brazil faced a critical shortage of fuel alcohol , used to run more than a quarter of passenger cars , because the rise in demand ( 48 per cent since 1985 ) could not be met by the stagnating production of sugar cane . |
| 19 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |
| 20 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 21 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 22 | There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders . |
| 23 | ‘ The only kind of central heating possible would be solid fuel and to install it would cost more than the cottage is worth . ’ |
| 24 | The report argues that such environmental subsidies would cost less than the sum earmarked by the Ministry of Agriculture for this year 's CAP , the administration of the proposed scheme being facilitated by the CPRE 's knowledge of the state of Britain 's farmland . |
| 25 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 26 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 27 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 28 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 29 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
| 30 | Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting . |