Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Macdonald has more going for him than merely the fact that he stands 6ft 8in . |
| 2 | You see , I think there was much more to it than just the fact that they were childless . ’ |
| 3 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 4 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 5 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |