Example sentences of "than [adv] the [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 2 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 3 | But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR . |
| 4 | Fortunately I have never had this problem either with ferrets or dogs but should it ever hit my animals it means more than just the loss of the ferrets . |
| 5 | Obviously vocational guidance , registration , and placement of school-leavers involved more than just the organization of the labour-market ; they were seen as essential to the incorporation of working-class adolescents into what influential social theorists were calling ‘ the community ’ . |
| 6 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
| 7 | 2.30 More often than not the loss of the wife 's services is assessed by reference to the costs of employing a housekeeper to provide those services , and there have been comparatively recent developments in this area . |
| 8 | That will more than double the size of the market to 2.5 trillion RPMs in 2005 . |
| 9 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 10 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 11 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |
| 12 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 13 | It is thus more than twice the size of the sterling CD market . |
| 14 | They calculated the proper stiffness at just more than twice the stiffness of the runner . |
| 15 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 16 | A 450km strip of road linking Tokyo , Nagoya and Kobe is alone expected to cost up to ¥5 trillion , more than twice the cost of the Channel tunnel between Britain and France . |
| 17 | Gas turbine engines , putting out more than twice the power of the average civilian aircraft , allow a cruising speed of 240 kt — nearly 300 mph — and a great deal of the cruise is spent at 250 ft . |
| 18 | However , it costs around £6.6 million a year to operate and maintain — more than twice the value of the electricity generated . |
| 19 | This style of writing focuses on facts rather than abstractions : this explains the differences in the views of Dicey and Jennings on the subject of sovereignty ; it is the reason for the disagreement between Dicey and Robson over whether or not we have administrative law ; and it is reflected in Willis 's argument against Hewart that the test of the existence of the ‘ new despotism ’ was to be found in the way in which the powers were actually used rather than how the form of the power cut across abstract constitutional principles . |