Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 3 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 4 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 5 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 6 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 7 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 8 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 9 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 10 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 11 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 12 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 13 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 14 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 15 | Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums . |
| 16 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 17 | The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry . |
| 18 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 19 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 20 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
| 21 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 22 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 23 | A team has a mix of people who contribute in different but complementary ways thus achieving synergy , ie the team produces more than the sum of its individuals . |
| 24 | The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC . |
| 25 | Second , the duty involves more than a duty of obedience . |
| 26 | The British system of government involves more than a network of departments headed by ministers . |
| 27 | The cobweb model highlights the complexity of global interconnections , but globalization involves more than the proliferation of links . |
| 28 | Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | It certainly means more than the absence of negligence . |
| 30 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |