Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 2 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 3 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 4 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 5 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 6 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 7 | Up in the Pennines , nine out of ten people of Staincliffe wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned less than a pound 's worth of moveables . |
| 8 | Poor little Johann survived less than a month . |
| 9 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 10 | Welsh flanker Stuart Lane lasted less than a minute in South Africa , while Irish stand-off Paul Dean had his tour ended in Australia before half-time in the first match . |
| 11 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 12 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 13 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 14 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 15 | Arthur runs faster than the wind . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the TARDIS , ’ Ace replied , with a smile in which Defries detected more than a hint of malicious enjoyment of her audience 's incomprehension . |
| 17 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 18 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 19 | Typically , he will cite the film All the President 's Men as one of liberal Hollywood 's morale-sapping strikes at US institutions without ever noticing that Richard Milhous Nixon managed more than a bit of subverting on his own account . |
| 20 | But the account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob goes deeper than the story of the purchase of Sarah 's burial plot . |
| 21 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 22 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 23 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 24 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 25 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 26 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 27 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 28 | Leith felt more than a bit dissatisfied with life when she went to bed that night . |
| 29 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 30 | The JD Tele costs more than the Squier Hank , but will it prove to be better ? |