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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the event the trend of declining support for the PAP proved stronger than popular support for Goh 's more open approach . |
| 6 | 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 . |