Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 2 | A Roman citizen often owned slaves who worked his land growing wheat ; a feudal lord would seize the surplus wheat grown by the serf on the lands of medieval Europe ; the early capitalist farmers began to employ landless labourers to do their manual work for a wage which was less than the total value of the product which they created . |
| 3 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 4 | This was less than the absolute growth in part-time male employment in services which more than doubled from 4000 to nearly 9000 . |
| 5 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 6 | As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation . |
| 7 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 8 | And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’ |
| 9 | The failure of Soviet nationalities policy , however , was more than a personal failure ; it also reflected the failure , over more than seventy years , to devise an official theory that could adequately account for ethnic and national differences , and perhaps a still deeper weakness in a doctrine that insisted working men ‘ had no country ’ . |
| 10 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 11 | This was more than a simple distillation of the man 's thoughts on the current political situation . |
| 12 | It was more than a simple indication of wants , because with a little prodding Bobo was starting to make sentences with a logical construction to them . |
| 13 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 14 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 15 | On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner . |
| 16 | For the thousands of families who flocked into Little Rock this was more than a mere election . |
| 17 | The argument between Watson and Forbes was more than a mere priority dispute — it reflected a basic disagreement over the purpose of gathering geographical information . |
| 18 | It was more than a mere walk … |
| 19 | When I realized that Hilda 's was more than a normal crush , I should have stopped it I suppose . |
| 20 | W. E. Gladstone saw Hill 's men as extremely Calvinistic ; but conclusive evidence that Hill himself was more than a moderate Calvinist is lacking . |
| 21 | After the terrible decades of Cold War and such near approaches to Hot War as the Cuba crisis , after decades in which the whole of Eastern Europe was a remote and hostile armed camp , the sudden thaw in which all of Europe seemed caught up was more than a political event . |
| 22 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 23 | This was more than a political strategy , however . |
| 24 | She was more than a wee bit confused . |
| 25 | KEVIN Keegan ( right ) went into quarantine yesterday , but it was more than a niggling flu bug which persuaded him to lock himself away from his Newcastle players before the FA Cup fifth round tie at Blackburn . |
| 26 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 27 | But ‘ Budgie ’ was more than a fine professional : he was a marvellous personality . |
| 28 | I assumed that this was more than an architectural whim , but might have some connection with conservation of land in this predominantly agricultural country . |
| 29 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 30 | The crusade was more than the great pilgrimage launched by Pope Urban in 1095 ; it was part of a larger movement , the expansion of Europe , against Islam and paganism in Spain , all through the Mediterranean , in Syria and the Holy Land , and in the Slavonic countries bordering on East Germany . |