Example sentences of "[det] than [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 8 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 9 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 10 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |