Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |