Example sentences of "than [art] usual [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good deal more attractive than the usual Pahlavi type of greed . |
| 2 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 3 | These round beans , one from each berry , give a more even roast than the usual split beans and may be roasted in a single layer in a heavy frying pan over a moderate heat . |
| 4 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 5 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 6 | Also , the alphabetical author/title arrangement is less helpful than the usual classified sequence of national bibliographies . |
| 7 | Although funding " crises " are endemic to the NHS , the crisis of 1987 raised more than the usual political storm , and plenty of ammunition for the Opposition in the election campaign of that year . |
| 8 | I could think of no more than the usual inadequate response . |
| 9 | Next summer , Cosmos ‘ Sonata ’ is on the seed shopping list , a white-flowered variety , which at 2ft ( 60cm ) will be more manageable than the usual lanky sorts . |
| 10 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
| 11 | Muslim fundamentalists demanded the death sentence be carried out by stoning or crucifixion rather than the usual Moroccan method of a firing squad . |
| 12 | Although most of the Mondays managed to knuckle down to a daily routine , rather than the usual blurred , night-time slog , stories continued to filter back to Britain that it was n't all hunky-dory in paradise . |
| 13 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 14 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |
| 15 | It was a promise rather than the usual social pleasantry . |
| 16 | Overall this is much more playable than the usual footy management mulch . |
| 17 | Eighteen patients had a skin biopsy or had a lesion removed , but no tests other than the usual histological examination were necessary . |