Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the idea of forming anything more than a temporary joint household with one or other spouse 's parents is not seen to be a serious option . |
| 2 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 3 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 4 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 5 | We were not used to drinking anything more than a glass of watered wine with our meals , and the effect on us , while not immediate , was catastrophic . |