Example sentences of "[det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 32 | He had previously made much play of the fact that the Labour party wanted to do more than the Government to ensure that women were paid properly . |
| 33 | The concession was expected to cost some NZ$440 million ( about US$240 million ) more than the government had planned for pensions . |
| 34 | The famous German raid on Coventry on the night of 14 November 1940 brought widespread devastation and civilian demoralisation ( such that a cordon had to be thrown round the city , and news from it heavily censored ) ; likewise , the bombing of the East End of London intimidated its inhabitants far more than the government dared admit at the time . |
| 35 | COUNCIL tax bills in Darlington are expected to be at least £75 more than the Government 's projections , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 36 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 37 | Far more than the man had been denied was pressed upon him . |
| 38 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 39 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 40 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 41 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 42 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 43 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |
| 44 | According to Paasi , therefore , a region is an institutionalized division of space , and is more than the myriad individual places which come and go in the lives of their creators . |
| 45 | That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage , if she was honest . |
| 46 | Much more than the name has changed . |
| 47 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 48 | ‘ Taxation ’ is no more than the name given to the quantification process whereby the amount of recoverable costs and disbursements is ascertained . |
| 49 | He points out that this was about 5% more than the level of performance during the years 1988 to 1990 . |
| 50 | £350 million needs to be spent by the Council by the year 2000 to ensure that it meets its statutory responsibilities — this is £165 million , or 90% more than the level of investment allocation likely to be approved by the Scottish Office in this period . |
| 51 | Among other measures in the budget , excise duties on tobacco products , petrol and diesel fuel were increased by more than the level of inflation ; the rate of corporation tax was cut from 35 to 34 per cent for 1990-91 and further to 32 per cent for 1991-92 ; and increases were made in child benefit . |
| 52 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 53 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 54 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 55 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 56 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 57 | And to say as much — to think as much — was to admit religion , to admit that life held more than the grave at the end of it , to admit that there was a spirit which transcended the poor imperfect flesh . |
| 58 | And make sure your insurance company knows about any specific items , like valuable antiques , that are worth more than the insurance limit they may have set . |
| 59 | To the primary teacher " teaching resources " mean far more than the school textbook . |
| 60 | This is slightly more than the distance that most pilots would like for a spot landing at the gliding site because you need a little more time for the approach in a strange place . |