Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , you probably know more about this than just about anybody outside government . |
| 2 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 3 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 4 | But the question which began to be asked more often after 1962 than before was : were the costs worth it ? |
| 5 | More young people are staying on after 16 than ever before . |
| 6 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 7 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 9 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 10 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 11 | Continuity between the two fabliaux in the case of animal imagery is a matter of more than just a general resemblance . |
| 12 | So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees . |
| 13 | The Queen 's arrival at the New Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes was the beginning of more than just another royal visit . |
| 14 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 15 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 16 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
| 17 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 18 | Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour . |
| 19 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
| 20 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 21 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 22 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 23 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 24 | Indeed the only blips on the horizon are the reluctance of the natural trumpets to ‘ really go for the burn ’ in the opening and closing choruses and ‘ Fecit potentiam ’ , and a couple of less than clearly focused notes from the tenor Marcus Brutscher , in the ‘ Deposuit ’ , in the context of what is otherwise a truly virtuoso performance . |
| 25 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
| 26 | In terms of individual doctors this means an average practitioner will do a visit between 2300 and 0700 every nine days instead of less than once a month . |
| 27 | There is a simple linear hierarchy in groups of less than about ten hens . |
| 28 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 29 | A random cholesterol estimation of greater than approximately 6.5 mmol/l in a diabetic patient aged less than 60 years should be repeated after a 1 2-hour overnight fast ( and taken before morning hypoglycaemic therapy ) on two further occasions to establish the diagnosis of hyperlipidaemia . |
| 30 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |