Example sentences of "[verb] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 3 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 4 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 5 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 6 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 8 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 9 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 10 | If we are to study the genetics of quantitative characters we should aim to know less than the exact genotype responsible for each phenotype . |
| 11 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 12 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 13 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 14 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 15 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 16 | It was easy enough to demand racial equality , fair distribution of the wealth of the world , or equal rights for women : none of those would happen tomorrow , and none of them involved more than the most superficial cosmetic surgery to make yourself credible . |
| 17 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 19 | Admit you want more than a mere boy can offer . |
| 20 | Should n't worry you we alright , I want more than a c ake |
| 21 | The following are our special letter services which you should use when you want more than the ordinary letter post . |
| 22 | The following are our special letter services , which you should use when you want more than the ordinary post . |
| 23 | Feminism is a given — but I want more than the political outline . |
| 24 | Though yeah they wo n't trust more than the once . |
| 25 | The reader is invited to study this closely , since it illustrates more than the possible treatment of a pencil . |
| 26 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 27 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 28 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 29 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 30 | A child born in Denmark will live an average of 75 years and has less than a one in 100 chance of dying before age one . ’ |