Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task . |
| 2 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 3 | Gina got nastier and nastier when she did n't have money ; she hit him much more than before . |
| 4 | Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society . |
| 5 | Their conditions of work bring people together more than ever before , in factories , offices and towns ; and yet at the same time these people are isolated from one another . |
| 6 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 7 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 8 | But — perhaps more than ever before — personal stresses within marriage and stress upon marriage mean that life will not always be blissful or even comfortable . |
| 9 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
| 10 | She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples . |
| 11 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
| 12 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
| 13 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 14 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 15 | The dog 's big dish was still more than half full . |
| 16 | The writing of the book was hardly more than half-way done , but did it need to be done here , ferchrissake ? |
| 17 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 18 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |
| 19 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 20 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 21 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
| 22 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 23 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 24 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
| 25 | Chief Inspector was slightly more than just a copper , Meredith thought wryly , amused at his apparent self abasement . |
| 26 | Round guttering is shaped like half ( or slightly less than half ) of a circle and is used with circular downpipes . |
| 27 | It had responsibility for two institutions within five miles of each other , both established for the same function and both less than half full . |
| 28 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 29 | Hiring by the week is usually a little less than twice the cost of hiring by the day . |
| 30 | I think that cuckoo nestlings must be doing rather more than just ‘ fooling ’ their hosts , more than just pretending to be something they are n't . |