Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Earlier centuries , in contrast , had an appreciation of the past that embodied more than nostalgia or antiquarian interest . |
| 3 | The other COSE firms were approached to support an effort that became bigger than HP and IBM could handle alone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many seemed larger than life . |
| 6 | that measured more than wood . |
| 7 | London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs , which in turn spent more than county authorities . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1958 Professor Richard Titmuss argued that social services included more than Welfare State services such as education , social security or the NHS . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |
| 13 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 14 | But a coup took more than force . |
| 15 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 16 | But with a clown-white face and fetish-chains , she looked older than sin . |
| 17 | In the cameos of street life , certain characters appeared larger than life , as the source of ritualized conflict . |
| 18 | Shinwell 's remarks did less than justice to both men who , in their own fashion , had a genuine concern for the welfare of seamen and their organisation . |
| 19 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 20 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 21 | Coghill did more than heap praises on Dymer . |
| 22 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |
| 23 | Matters were complicated by Yorick 's style : his consciousness did more than stream ; it gushed . |
| 24 | Jemson lasted less than half-an-hour on Saturday . |
| 25 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 26 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |