Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 2 | Not healthy , especially coming after a bigger than expected £30bn deficit in the current tax year . |
| 3 | The prayer was answered and , says John , ‘ he had all his lifetime after a more than ordinary fear of God and His presence ’ . |
| 4 | Eventually she ended up at Kirtland AFB , New Mexico , and after a less than spectacular career as a war memorial she was in danger of imminent scrapping . |
| 5 | The great disparity between home and away form last year was more of a freak than either aspect taken alone . |
| 6 | And it 's , it 's , it 's more of a number than minus one . |
| 7 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 8 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 9 | They 'd considered going to the police , but agreed that , after the embarrassing débâcle of the inquest , further accusations from Jacqui against Nigel Steen would sound more like the ramblings of a paranoid than anything else . |
| 10 | She attracts much more of a following than previous Indian imports , partly because she encourages people to keep their jobs rather than dropping out to live in a commune . |
| 11 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 12 | There were times when he thought Maisie was not much more of a Muslim than he was . |
| 13 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 14 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 15 | Perhaps I 'm more of a Catholic than I thought , but the idea of all those discarded embryos — it makes me feel cold inside . ’ |
| 16 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 17 | At 41 , she remains an enigma , her private life far more of a secret than most public figures have managed to maintain . |
| 18 | Goneril and Regan almost have hypocrisy thrust upon them , in that Lear 's invitations to flatter for instant profit do impose an intolerable burden on anyone of a less than firm integrity . |
| 19 | From Penhill Crags , where the only bones I saw were those of a less than gigantic sheep , we walked by the disused quarry to Stony Gate and the old drove road of Morpeth Gate , now a peaceful broad green lane and very pleasant walking . |
| 20 | This inevitably results in the provision of a less than satisfactory service which , of course , confirms the low status and ‘ poor ’ image of the personnel function amongst other departments and divisions . |
| 21 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 22 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 23 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 24 | And there would be no more reason for establishing the membership of a co-operative than the investors in a joint stock company as such a group . |
| 25 | When she sprayed her face , her visage became more of a blank than ever , a black mask with the merest hint of features . |
| 26 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 27 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 28 | Setting the action in the 1940s New York causes more of a linguistic than cultural problem . |
| 29 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 30 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |