Example sentences of "[pron] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 3 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never known anyone who enjoyed being himself more than Jack . |
| 5 | its More than pots I 'm stirring |
| 6 | Initial indications show that already over 1 , people are planning to take advantage of the week , which more than firms and businesses are supporting . |
| 7 | But nobody less than God was ever likely to offer her one . |
| 8 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 9 | ICI , in its involvement during the 1980s in illegal cartels for polypropylene , PVC and other materials , has been shown by the EC to threaten competition more on its own than Hanson ever has . |
| 10 | Scientific dating techniques , and none more than radiocarbon , have revolutionised the archaeologist 's understanding of human cultural development . |
| 11 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 12 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 13 | All the family were delighted to have him home again , but none more than Maureen . |
| 14 | I need it like nothing else-more than food , drink , art , everything . |
| 15 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 16 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 17 | Though every responsible artist must know the annals of his art ( no one more than Pound insisted on that ) , still every artwork that is worth anything not only can be but has to be new , unprecedented . |
| 18 | Mark Hateley and I have 70 between us , which is incredible , but it really does n't matter if I score or not tomorrow just as long as we get one more than Bruges . ’ |
| 19 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 20 | For heads , other teachers and governors partnership needs , as a first step , self-awareness , self-esteem and a capacity to tolerate something less than perfection . |
| 21 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 22 | So the Devolution Bills proposed something less than federalism . |
| 23 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've had enough with that lot downstairs , going on at me as if I 'm something less than bacteria ! ’ |
| 25 | In any event , something less than adoption , that is custodianship , would be enough ’ . |
| 26 | I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt . |
| 27 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 28 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 29 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 30 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |