Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is common for fewer than twelve notes to be used over specific areas , or for certain notes to be repeated or used more than others , as long as the general non-tonal effect is maintained . |
| 2 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 3 | Rats undergoing massive small bowel resection weighed less than controls both at one and two weeks whether or not they received CR-1409 ( 8–14% less at one week , p<0.001 ; 10–24% less at two weeks , p<0.001 ) . |
| 4 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 5 | Earlier centuries , in contrast , had an appreciation of the past that embodied more than nostalgia or antiquarian interest . |
| 6 | The other COSE firms were approached to support an effort that became bigger than HP and IBM could handle alone . |
| 7 | The other COSE firms were approached to support an effort that became bigger than Hewlett and IBM could handle alone . |
| 8 | The other COSE companies — principally Sun Microsystems Inc with Unix System Laboratories Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc — were approached to support an effort that became bigger than Hewlett and IBM could handle alone . |
| 9 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 10 | Many seemed larger than life . |
| 11 | But he seemed older than Li Yuan remembered him . |
| 12 | Nobody suffered more than Hignett — looking more and more a Premier League thoroughbred , despite only six games in the top flight following his £500,000 transfer last month . |
| 13 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 14 | But few came odder than Joseph Neeld . |
| 15 | that measured more than wood . |
| 16 | ‘ The pattern that imports decreased more than exports remains unchanged , which could help maintain the surplus and problems with other nations , ’ Mr Okoshi said . |
| 17 | ‘ They stank worse than fish , worse than fish , five thousand francs worth of white flowers , five big pots of white oil paint — ’ |
| 18 | London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs , which in turn spent more than county authorities . |
| 19 | Although it bid less than TSW , the latter 's business plan was deemed unviable by the Independent Television Commission with a £16.1m bid . |
| 20 | Behind these changes lay both developments in the European economy as a whole , and the English exploitation of new manufacturing techniques , from which particular areas benefited more than others . |
| 21 | ‘ Constanza belonged more than Anna . |
| 22 | The Commission would have no automatic powers , however , in cases where at least one of the merging companies ( i ) derived less than pounds 1,750 million of its global turnover in the EC ; or ( ii ) derived more than two-thirds of total turnover from a single EC country . |
| 23 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 24 | Dmitrii Zamiatnin , the deputy Minister of Justice , and Sergei Zarudnyi , Bludov 's assistant at the Second Department , were juridical radicals , but although they registered a few successes in their quest for change ( notably the foundation of the enlightened Journal of the Ministry of Justice in 1859 ) , they needed more than idealism to convert their superiors . |
| 25 | In 1958 Professor Richard Titmuss argued that social services included more than Welfare State services such as education , social security or the NHS . |
| 26 | In fact , on many occasions , Maisie talked more than Henry . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S inflation rate yesterday went lower than Germany 's for the first time in 24 years . |
| 28 | What if it offered more than Medau ? |
| 29 | So the related notions of desire as lack , the impossibility of desire , and the desiring subject as ineluctably split have a history in Western thought older than psychoanalysis . |
| 30 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |