Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 2 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 3 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 4 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 5 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 6 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 7 | He himself never used his pigments in other than a most orthodox manner . |
| 8 | A court of the United States may order the issuance of a subpoena requiring the appearance as a witness before it , or before a person or body designated by it , of a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country , or requiring the production of a specified document or other thing by him , if the court finds that particular testimony or the production of the document or other thing by him is necessary in the interests of justice , and , in other than a criminal action or proceeding , if the court finds , in addition , that it is not possible to obtain his testimony in admissible form without his personal appearance or to obtain the production of the document or other thing in any other manner . |
| 9 | The man had never behaved towards her in other than a friendly and decorous way ; nevertheless , she burned . |
| 10 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
| 11 | While these techniques are not sufficiently developed to use in other than a research capacity at present , they offer the hope that , in future , it will be possible to identify asymptomatic individuals by testing their stools against a panel of DNA probes . |
| 12 | So , if multimedia is going to get established in other than the very long term , it is more likely to be delivered by a low cost stand-alone system such as CDTV , CD-I or even DVI , if a low cost dedicated player can be devised . |
| 13 | Encouraging art enthusiasts to see Degas ' work in other than the sepulchral tones of revisionist art history and to lay bare the politics of class and gender would surely have been better achieved by the use of less opaque references to theoretical debate and the inclusion of these fascinating essays in the Liverpool exhibition catalogue itself . |
| 14 | It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better ! |
| 15 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 16 | The group also rewarded Egypt for its part in the Gulf alliance by agreeing to write off more than a third of the country 's debt to foreign governments . |
| 17 | I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch . |
| 18 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 19 | In the most potentially serious accident , a ski-rack came off worse than the out-of-control 10-year-old who hit it . |
| 20 | Half of the body moves along the ground on many little legs — the front half rears up taller than a man , with many little arms . |
| 21 | Once the width between the eyes had been determined and marked out , George worked on both eyes ; that way , neither eye ends up larger than the other . |
| 22 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 23 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 24 | Even if you were five behind with five to go with Seve , he still thought he could win , and there 's nothing pumps a caddie up more than a guy who thinks like that . |
| 25 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 26 | If the user decided on very large keys — and IBM allows up to 256 bytes , for example — the track index might take up more than a single track . |
| 27 | If I remember correctly , the woman I held in my arms back in that little make-up room did n't put up more than a token fight . ’ |
| 28 | All in all , exports did not take up more than a fifth of the increase in the output of the economy as a whole . |
| 29 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 30 | Apart from anything else , coffee is not drunk by the Chinese , which makes me very glad I bought my packets of Nescafe , and rather annoyed that I did n't bring more , as I have already used up more than a third of my coffee . |