Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis 's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered , punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing . |
| 2 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 3 | Mr Gould did not intend to indulge in recriminations over Thursday 's defeat but he felt Mr Smith 's tax policy and its impact on middle income earners in the South ‘ perhaps showed less than total sensitivity to their interests . |
| 4 | H.S. Lecky got less than half way through his The King 's Ships ( 1913–14 ) , giving a history , in alphabetical order of name , of the ships of the Royal Navy . |
| 5 | Decisions such as these show that the courts inclined to the view that in a conflict between the common law property right of an individual and the statutory powers of a local authority to interfere with those rights , the benefit of any doubt in statute was to be given to the individual — and that this was particularly so if the statute gave less than full compensation to the individual . |
| 6 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 7 | Thus was made an archbishop who did more than any Archbishop of Canterbury since Stephen Langton of Magna Carta to make the Church more free in its relation to the State . |
| 8 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |
| 9 | Read the extract below in your usual way : The Industrial Revolution did more than free man from economic dependence on relatively static methods of production ; it increased the total amount of food and goods available to every individual . |
| 10 | In the event the trend of declining support for the PAP proved stronger than popular support for Goh 's more open approach . |
| 11 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |
| 12 | Although he will always be compared to the Rangers winger Willie Henderson , a diminutive showman who won the hearts of the other Glasgow , Johnstone had more than impudent skill on his side . |
| 13 | Slicker though Swansea were , Harlequins gained more than enough possession through their dominance at the line-out and the innumerable penalties to have expected more from the game — certainly New Zealand 's All Blacks will drive a far harder bargain when they play Swansea on 21 October . |