Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [noun] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 2 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 3 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 4 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 5 | In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’ |
| 6 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 7 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 8 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 9 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 10 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |