Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adj] than a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent . |
| 2 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 3 | Antoine 's failure to analyse his actions in anything other than a purely technical sense is explained primarily by the tempo of his life dictated by an excessive work load that leaves no time for leisure , for reflection , for self-scrutiny : |
| 4 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 5 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |