Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's less fun in that than the Ideal Home mail order offer to pamper your bottom , at least if you 're a cyclist . |
| 2 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 3 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 4 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 5 | Apologies too for being more boring about this than an Arsenal v Wimbledon game . |
| 6 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 7 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 8 | There are hundreds of different negotiating tactics and many people are rather better at these than the critical creation of the basic plan . |
| 9 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 10 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 11 | and far too late for more than the corpse stopped |
| 12 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |