Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |
| 2 | Their plausibility requires that the disinclination to be cruel to animals is a mark of true humanity ; part of its content , rather than merely a possible cause of it . |
| 3 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 4 | [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ . |
| 5 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 6 | The concept of a cognitive map , in O'Keefe and Nadel 's hands , is more than just a topographic representation of the space in which the animal is located ; it also describes the distribution of cell systems concerned with the analysis and integration of spatial cues within a framework of behavioural meaning for the animal . |
| 7 | This is more than just a subtle interweaving of his own and Proust 's problematics . |
| 8 | There were lots more , there were even one or two who , like Albert ‘ Bertie ’ Gomes , had more than just a tentative grasp of the deadly art of Trinidadian politics and finally there was Uriah Butler , who in 1946 — ten years after he had instigated the oil field demonstrations — led the most successful campaign in the first elections under universal suffrage . |
| 9 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
| 10 | A group is more than just a random collection of individuals . |
| 11 | For him , the " Panopticon principle " ( p 216 ) should be regarded as more than just a particular example of ingenuity in architectural design ; rather : " … it was an event in the " history of the human mind " . |
| 12 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 13 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 14 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
| 15 | Rather than just a smaller version of the New York show , it has been reshaped to provide a detailed overview of the years 1904 to 1917 , and around 130 paintings , together with drawings and sculpture dating from these years will be displayed . |
| 16 | It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack . |
| 17 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 18 | Well something other than just to talk about other than just the normal run of road things . |
| 19 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 20 | In the case of local politics , should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy ? |
| 21 | There is more to the Premier Division , of course , than just the mathematical outcome of the championship . |
| 22 | that the load is more than just the initial action of my division |
| 23 | Each case must be examined on its own facts , examining the function rather than just the formal categorisation of the requesting authority . |
| 24 | Hyundai claims the new 124bhp engine is more than just an enlarged version of the existing Lantra 's 1.6-litre unit . |
| 25 | So you are very unlikely to be able to tell your story ( and , once again , telling a story is what you are doing fundamentally ) without abandoning more than once the angel-on-the-shoulder viewpoint of whatever chief characters you have chosen . |
| 26 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 27 | In 1999 , the average daily number of remand prisoners ( including those detained in police cells ) was 10,470 , more than double the 1976 figure of 5,090 ( Home Office , 1977b , 1990f ) . |
| 28 | A second runway would more than double the present number of take-offs and landings . |
| 29 | Of the 383 state production plans , 148 had been unable to meet their target — more than double the previous figure of 65 . |
| 30 | The radial shields are visible , distinctly longer than wide the distal portion of the shield bulges and touches or overlaps the opposite shield , the distal ends are separated . |