Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 2 | The reader is invited to study this closely , since it illustrates more than the possible treatment of a pencil . |
| 3 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 4 | It rose higher than the surrounding buildings and it was lit by clerestory windows below roof level . |
| 5 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 6 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 7 | It costs more than a normal prescription , two or three times as much , one charge for each hormone they contain , yet means the difference between health or serious illness and peace of mind for you and your partner . |
| 8 | In the long run , of course , not only is this inefficient , but it costs more than the single , substantial investment . |
| 9 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 10 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 11 | It achieved more than a four per cent swing in the West Midlands and won seven of its nine target seats , with only Coventry South West and Dudley West failing to fall . |
| 12 | IT TAKES more than a sending-off to halt the Portadown juggernaut these days . |
| 13 | It takes more than a few days but it goes again , just about . |
| 14 | ‘ It takes more than a few bruises , and a few kicks , to make people like us talk , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It takes more than a poisonous soda to subdue me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It seems quieter than the other machines , ’ said Robyn . |
| 17 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |