Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] than [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 2 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 3 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 4 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 5 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 6 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 7 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 8 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 9 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 10 | Suddenly , after battling all season with Manchester City for third place in the First Division , the Wednesday player-manager finds that finishing second is now more than just a pipe dream . |
| 11 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 12 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 13 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 14 | But OALD is far more than just a dictionary . |
| 15 | But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick . |
| 16 | It is far more than just an accidental entrance to your home . |
| 17 | That a figure with such a subversive reputation as Morrison can be a fit subject for an extremely posh , photo-laden book is maybe more than just a little embarrassing . |