Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 2 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 3 | The only politically important area of British life which was not dominated by these less than adequate children of the Victorians was the labour movement . |
| 4 | Further , these less than satisfactory aspects of enumerative classification help to explain the rationale for the search for more effective methods of designing classification schemes . |
| 5 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 6 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |
| 7 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 8 | There is still a superficial resemblance to the old style , especially on larger vases which often have a figure-frieze on neck and body , the rest being covered with graded bands of abstract ornament ; but this has shrunk to little more than varied groupings of zigzags , while massed zigzags among the figures of the main friezes make a shimmering ground on which the fuller , curvier silhouettes or dot-filled outlines of men , women , animals , monsters , flowers stand out . |
| 9 | The speech consisted of little more than bullish assertions of the underlying dynamism and strength of the British economy . |
| 10 | Then the meetings became little more than quarterly distributions of the papers . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the eyes of some , the clergyman and the wizard continued to represent little more than alternative conduits of a much needed protective magic . |
| 12 | This theory regards purring as little more than heavy breathing of the type humans sometimes indulge in when they are asleep — in other words , snoring . |
| 13 | All too frequently the merger agreement ( which may itself comprise little more than random heads of agreement born of their production by separate teams working on specific issues ) will be relied upon as a sufficient substitute . |
| 14 | 3 : It is generally accepted that nuclear electricity is everywhere more expensive than other forms of generation when the brushed-aside costs of decommissioning and dealing with its wastes are included , as ultimately they must . |
| 15 | Before his time , American presidents were not assumed , any more than other heads of state , to have a corner on principled and coherent reasons for intervention ; the United States did its bit , muffled its complaints , tried — when pushed — to be a good ally . |
| 16 | In practice , few of the conceptual embellishments of the idea of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ proved to be any more than occasional glimpses of what an ideal press ought to be like . |