Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My essay will trace the pattern of references to other literary sources of which the author herself was sometimes no more than subliminally aware . |
2 | And once again the motif is transpersonalized , for in the novel Shatov proves himself more than ordinarily resolute ; his paper Slavophilism does n't touch his human courage as husband and friend — and enemy . |
3 | It will contain one of the finest and openest quadrangles in this country ; its details will be more than ordinarily lively and cheerful ; its amount of window light will exceed that of , probably , any public building in this country ; its construction will embody every modern improvement , invention , and appliance ; its materials will be the most perfect which long and earnest study enable me to render them , while its cost will not in the least exceed what is customary with public buildings in the usual style . |
4 | If we wish to revive that tradition , or if we are interested in creating a fully democratic society , then there can be no doubt that a more than narrowly political or formal equality must be one of our goals . |
5 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
6 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
7 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
8 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
9 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
10 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
11 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
12 | If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable . |
13 | Furthermore , in those cases where these events are allowed to have a probability of I , that is no more than logically consistent with their being necessitated . |
14 | The idea that the two areas , arts and science , are more than simply subject groupings , is not a new one . |
15 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
16 | And she knew now that the worst accusation to be levelled against such women as Marie Moon was that they found " all that " much more than simply worthwhile . |
17 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
18 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
19 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
20 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
21 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
22 | Alkali cleaners : These products are often little more than mildly alkaline detergents formulated from anionic-non-ionic detergent blends with a very small proportion of caustic soda and balancing sequestrant . |
23 | Amiss tried to sound no more than mildly interested . |
24 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
25 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
26 | But it is more than slightly worrying to find it still rampant in a largish UK company . |
27 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
28 | ‘ Though no doubt Quirinus would be more than slightly curious as to our errand in the Greshorns . |
29 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
30 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |