Example sentences of "[pron] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And once again the motif is transpersonalized , for in the novel Shatov proves himself more than ordinarily resolute ; his paper Slavophilism does n't touch his human courage as husband and friend — and enemy . |
| 2 | His rigorous policy , which would have blocked bank accounts and exchanged old bank notes for new ones at something less than one-to-one , was resisted by a group of ministers led by the Minister of Finance , René Pleven . |
| 3 | They recoil away as if the intruder were unpleasant to them — something more than simply shading them from sunlight . |
| 4 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 5 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 6 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |
| 7 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 8 | Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer . |
| 9 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 10 | It symbolised something more than just a pleasant snack . |
| 11 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 12 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 13 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 15 | By political behaviour is meant something more than just voting behaviour , although that is important and will be addressed . |
| 16 | Something — something more than just missing her — had been vaguely unsettling . |
| 17 | Her vision was starting to blur , with something more than just tears . |
| 18 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |
| 19 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 20 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 21 | What we had something more than just the bean sprouts ? |
| 22 | something more than just erm he 's picked the best people for the job . |
| 23 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 24 | If we take literary to mean something more than merely ‘ decorative ’ , then , in a sense , all language may be seen as literary . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you might wish to know , which is why I enquired of Edita , ’ he replied urbanely , ‘ But I 'm afraid it is nothing more than plain ‘ vepřové řízky plnëné žampióny ’ . ’ |
| 26 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 27 | But are our bodies and our selves truly nothing more than highly complex , sophisticated machines ? |
| 28 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 29 | She loved him more than ever . |
| 30 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |