Example sentences of "[pron] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 2 | All were somewhat fuddled with drink but none more than the Mayor and his party . |
| 3 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 4 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 5 | A polyurethane coating then seals the pores , usually making the surfaces slick and shiny , one more than the other . |
| 6 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 7 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 8 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 9 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 10 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 11 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 12 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 13 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 14 | This would involve something more than the counselling which EWOs routinely provide in truancy cases . |
| 15 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 16 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 17 | Interest was needed to obtain any office , but all too often it was also required to rise in rank thereafter , and something more than the ‘ ability and character ’ mentioned by Scott would be needed to take the junior clerk to the headship of a department . |
| 18 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
| 19 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 20 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |
| 21 | An occupier is in such a case liable only where the injury is due to some wilful act involving something more than the absence of reasonable care . |
| 22 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 23 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 24 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
| 25 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 26 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 27 | Robert felt something more than the natural peevishness of a betrayed parent or guardian . |
| 28 | Hilton 's attempt to revive the idea of Lollard influence on the revolt by redefining Lollardy as something more than the following of Wyclif ( 78 , p.213 ) disregards the general character of later Lollardy , which only rarely developed revolutionary tendencies . |
| 29 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 30 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |