Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the reality that yes our three tropical experts had flown through the questionnaire stage and impressed the producer more than sufficiently at the interview stage and they would now be appearing in front of 14 million viewers , battling it out with another team , unknown until the actual day . |
| 2 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 3 | You know rather than down to the line planning for every single moment of the day . |
| 4 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 5 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 6 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 7 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 8 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 9 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 10 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 11 | Hence , fathers are counted once only in the birth certificate analysis , but may appear more than once in the interview analysis . |
| 12 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 13 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 14 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 15 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 16 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 17 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 18 | Similarly , when he visits the south-east region , he will want to know why so many sales people are investing their time in the office rather than out on the road selling . |
| 19 | So , the Keynesian argues that monetary policy will be more effective if the authorities aim to control interest rates directly , rather than indirectly through the money supply . |
| 20 | A PUBLICAN faces jail after being convicted of causing the death of a 16-year-old jogger by driving dangerously while more than twice over the drink drive limit . |
| 21 | H. L. Gee knew it when he said that Edinburgh is ‘ perhaps never seen to greater advantage than late on a midsummer evening , the stones crimson in the setting sun , western windows ablaze with fire ’ . |
| 22 | Every creditor wishing to attend on the hearing must give notice of his intention to the petitioning creditor not later than 4pm on the business day before the hearing . |