Example sentences of "[det] than [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infact it is alot easier doing something like this than going into the ring because you see all their fresh faces and all they care about is having their quetions answered . |
| 2 | Geoffrey was also in charge of the effects record on the Panatrope ; he was better at that than moving about the stage . |
| 3 | It also included the committee 's limit of 15 B-2s , 60 fewer than requested by the Bush administration . |
| 4 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 5 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 6 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 7 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 8 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 9 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 10 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 11 | Once again the situation of the Black community in Britain — people who have more than contributed to the building of this country — comes into question . |
| 12 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 13 | It said that ‘ short-term and somewhat minimal job prospects ’ created by gold mining would be ‘ more than offset by a drop in tourism jobs . |
| 14 | However , these were more than offset by the migration of 348,000 people to the area . |
| 15 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 16 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 17 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 18 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 19 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 20 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Courses primarily of the one-hour-a-week variety and based on vocabulary with English — sign equivalents can do no more than serve as an introduction . |
| 22 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 23 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 24 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 25 | It takes more than promenading on the streets to learn one of the world 's most difficult languages , James Meek finds |
| 26 | Mr Prichard remembers his grandmother as a warm but private person who liked nothing more than to sit beside the Thames at her home in Cholsey and to tend her beloved roses . |
| 27 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 28 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 29 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
| 30 | That more than trebled under the Tories to £285 a week , or £14,800 per annum . |