Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 2 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 3 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 4 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 5 | This is more than just a book with balances . |
| 6 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 7 | Building students preparing for a career in Europe need much more than just a grounding in languages , says John Watson , student representative for the CIOB 's Northern Counties Region and press officer for the Tyneside Centre . |
| 8 | On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation . |
| 9 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 10 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 11 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 12 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 13 | Now rail travellers arriving in Darlington will notice more than just a handful of changes compared to six years ago . |
| 14 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 15 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 16 | Access requires more than just the existence of possibilities . |
| 17 | It goes wider than just the position of individuals , important though that is . |
| 18 | However , there 's a lot more to consider than just the number of columns . |
| 19 | Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries . |
| 20 | All told , it will more than double the number of computers in Californian schools . |
| 21 | We should recall here how alive the Chicago School was to this link , even if they saw people 's careers and mobility as largely products of their own actions rather than also the products of companies and other institutions . |
| 22 | It 's not clear that new institutions are needed rather than simply an intensification of activities in the republics . ’ |
| 23 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 24 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 25 | Fats contain more than twice the amount of calories as carbohydrates or proteins for the same weight . |
| 26 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |