Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody less than God was ever likely to offer her one . |
| 2 | Scientific dating techniques , and none more than radiocarbon , have revolutionised the archaeologist 's understanding of human cultural development . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | All the family were delighted to have him home again , but none more than Maureen . |
| 6 | I need it like nothing else-more than food , drink , art , everything . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So the Devolution Bills proposed something less than federalism . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had enough with that lot downstairs , going on at me as if I 'm something less than bacteria ! ’ |
| 17 | In any event , something less than adoption , that is custodianship , would be enough ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 23 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 24 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 25 | There was something more in his eyes , something more than apology . |
| 26 | But this was something more than intelligence . |
| 27 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 28 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 29 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 30 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |