Example sentences of "than [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 2 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 3 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 4 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 5 | There are rather more women , I think , that go into chemistry on the whole , are n't there , than perhaps physics , and certainly engineering . |
| 6 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 7 | ‘ She thought she would get more for her money and she felt it was a more friendly environment than perhaps Liverpool or somewhere like that . ’ |
| 8 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 9 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 10 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 11 | The books is more than merely route descriptions though , as Harding recounts the times over the years he 's walked the various paths , adding anecdotes , descriptions of the people and insights into the history of the area . |
| 12 | We have to consider factors other than merely resources . |
| 13 | The range of public library services , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , is now much broader than merely books and readers , and perhaps these logos should have made more attempt to reflect this greater concern for information services in the widest sense . |
| 14 | We say ‘ everyone is entitled to his beliefs ’ , recognising the nastiness of a world which will not tolerate alternative beliefs , but over-looking the fact that some beliefs are nonsense and deserve to be called prejudice , bigotry or superstition rather than merely belief . |
| 15 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 16 | For this reason , the band intensity should be considered as a good approximation of relative occupancy as long as the accumulative mole fraction of blocked transcripts is less than approximately 50% , otherwise sites further downstream are underestimated ( 10 ) . |
| 17 | The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 . |
| 18 | Kenya 's Other Mountains — There 's much more than just Mount Kenya , as David Else discovers |
| 19 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 20 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 21 | But we will endeavour to represent our members and to push for their ordinary rights , their just rights more than just rights they , are earned rights and should be afforded to them . |
| 22 | That group does have wider representation than just Councillor 's , it has er Labour party representation on that group . |
| 23 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do I get the feeling this is more than just coincidence ? ’ |
| 25 | It is surely more than just coincidence that Alf Ramsey , later to lead England to World Cup victory in 1966 , played in both of these eye-opening defeats . |
| 26 | She and her boyfriend Jonathan Clack have become convinced the vandalism is more than just coincidence . |
| 27 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 28 | However , whether the musician or athlete will perform well involves more than just ability . |
| 29 | ‘ I want more than just weekends . ’ |
| 30 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |