Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Howard Wilkinson is prepared to accept less than the £2 million he paid Arsenal during the summer , Clough is keen to do business . |
| 2 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 3 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 4 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 5 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 6 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 7 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 8 | Whether or not we accept the particular characterization offered by opponent-process theory , it seems that conditioned suppression training is likely to involve more than the formation of a CS-shock association . |
| 9 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 10 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 11 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 12 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 13 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 14 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 15 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |
| 16 | Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed . |
| 17 | It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 18 | It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft . |
| 19 | ‘ Obviously it is possible to stay cheaper than the price we quoted , but we felt it was impossible to show that in our leaflet , ’ said Clydesdale marketing director Stuart Laing . |
| 20 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 21 | Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise . |
| 22 | Part Two consists of an appraisal of each of the 17 counties — Durham are still too young to warrant more than a mention . |