Example sentences of "be [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’
2 IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation .
3 It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected .
4 And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature .
5 With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately .
6 In broadcasting the French predilection for state leadership , fresh starts and grand plans is widely regarded as being less than a great success .
7 Early encashment values are not guaranteed and may result in the amount received being less than the original investment ( please refer to the table below ) .
8 ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal .
9 ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal .
10 This high level route is not for the faint hearted — as well as being longer than the Pennine Way it involves much more climbing .
11 Whatever their size , these armies were being more than a minor nuisance , and in any case the frequent defeats of local levies imply that they were often outnumbered or outclassed or both .
12 The sentiment behind ‘ You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends ’ was lauded by the music press but Gedge was being more than a little hollow .
13 The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court .
14 However , since these latter categories were derived from lay ‘ common-sense ’ belief 's rather than the scientific rigour they advocated so much ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ; and Garland , 1985a ) , their specific reformative recommendations tended not to amount to very much either .
15 As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day .
16 A Roman citizen often owned slaves who worked his land growing wheat ; a feudal lord would seize the surplus wheat grown by the serf on the lands of medieval Europe ; the early capitalist farmers began to employ landless labourers to do their manual work for a wage which was less than the total value of the product which they created .
17 One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society .
18 This was less than the absolute growth in part-time male employment in services which more than doubled from 4000 to nearly 9000 .
19 Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport
20 As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation .
21 Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ .
22 And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’
23 The failure of Soviet nationalities policy , however , was more than a personal failure ; it also reflected the failure , over more than seventy years , to devise an official theory that could adequately account for ethnic and national differences , and perhaps a still deeper weakness in a doctrine that insisted working men ‘ had no country ’ .
24 It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison .
25 This was more than a simple distillation of the man 's thoughts on the current political situation .
26 It was more than a simple indication of wants , because with a little prodding Bobo was starting to make sentences with a logical construction to them .
27 The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell .
28 Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction .
29 On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner .
30 For the thousands of families who flocked into Little Rock this was more than a mere election .
  Next page