Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She had grown fatter than ever .
2 As I said the er , the trolley buses were being phased out and the buses , the motor buses were being used more than ever and I do n't know the date of the last trolley bus running but I well remember it being reported time , it was the erm , bus was packed on its last journey from Electric House and people were photographing it .
3 American history aside , Madame Chardin 's had more than adequately prepared her and Katherine set her sights on university , on Columbia , or Radcliffe or Sarah Laurence .
4 ‘ We 've always had more than just this .
5 It seems they must have had more than just a message .
6 Ms Davidson suggests that PR is now valued more than ever before and this is reflected in the number of highly qualified people coming into the industry .
7 Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think .
8 However , he felt his moderating influence in the army was now needed more than ever .
9 Yeah mentally handicapped more than mentally sick .
10 The old bonds must be forged stronger than ever , the tree of State made firm against the storm to come , from root to branch . ’
11 Hollywood confidently made stylish films and presented them to an audience that had become larger than ever .
12 The mist had become thicker than before , but the path was a good one .
13 While any possibility of support from the provincial men might have had quickly evaporated , the resolution of the Port of London Authority and its allies had become stronger than ever .
14 And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century .
15 Obviously vocational guidance , registration , and placement of school-leavers involved more than just the organization of the labour-market ; they were seen as essential to the incorporation of working-class adolescents into what influential social theorists were calling ‘ the community ’ .
16 Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head .
17 Although these various studies have demonstrated that TV can be acquired other than sexually , as with gonorrhoea , such cases probably make up a very small minority of the total .
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