Example sentences of "than [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 2 | She wanted to say , ‘ I 'd be more than happy to leave it to the experts . ’ |
| 3 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
| 4 | The energy transferred from the photon to the electron is more than enough to remove it from the atom . |
| 5 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 6 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |