Example sentences of "than [adv] a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 2 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 3 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 5 | The full story of the WM & CR is more than just a recalling of the day-to-day running of a railway . |
| 6 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 7 | Now need you help , because they hope to offer a lot more than just a roof over the heads . |
| 8 | But this is more than just a taste of the past . |
| 9 | With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . |
| 10 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 11 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |