Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair .
2 The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life .
3 It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent .
4 Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute .
5 He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation .
6 But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio .
7 So I says to Pete , right , start as we mean to go on , I refuse to pay any more than the cleanup rate .
8 This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print .
9 This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls .
10 The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies .
11 But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " .
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