Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the very last months they cry more than ever . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in line with Sag & Hankamer 's suggestions , once the attention of a literate person is directed to the examples in our corpus , they often appear less than fully acceptable . |
| 3 | If you want more than just an ordinary bathroom , Dolphin can provide all the help and advice you 'll need to create the complete special bathroom . |
| 4 | I have a feeling that most women want more than just a casual affair . |
| 5 | ‘ I want more than just weekends . ’ |
| 6 | But we want more than just our top award decided by you , the readers . |
| 7 | But we want more than just our top award decided by you , the readers . |
| 8 | She had all day to sleep if she wished , but : I sleep less than ever , she thought . |
| 9 | In truth , our future competitiveness and prosperity depend more than ever before on technology and industry . |
| 10 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 11 | Not only does teaching a teenager at school cost less than half as much as at university . |
| 12 | Power supply units needed by the chips and relays , still cost more than either . |
| 13 | • RoC hypo-allergenic treatment make-up for skins which deserve more than just colour . |
| 14 | IF THE Home Unions XV are tempted — as they may be after all the disruptive absentees and injuries — to go into tonight 's Parc des Princes Bicentenary bash less than seriously , they should consider the way the French are treating it . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 16 | The intensifying struggle to get into university means that examination grades matter more than ever . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or did that gold-brown mane of hair look more than usually rumpled ? |
| 19 | you get more than just the highlights of the news . |
| 20 | In June 1953 , with memorable pageantry , Elizabeth II was crowned queen , an event that promoted music rather than literature , among the arts , and design more than either . |
| 21 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 22 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 23 | The only other types of credit they use more than very occasionally are trading checks or tallymen , and HP . |
| 24 | And are talking about I think more than just a few people erm therefore the s |
| 25 | Just as the student award regulations are the " hidden hand " of higher education planning , so also do our admissions arrangements determine more than just who studies where : they partly condition both the nature of our courses and the shape of sixth-form education . |
| 26 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 27 | No matter — Motian 's small groups have been ‘ led ’ by Frisell 's electric guitar since the 1980s and in practice , Evans 's complex Walkin' up , or the equally complex interplay of instruments and tempi in Five do more than simply survive with either guitar or saxophone ( or both ) leading . |
| 28 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |
| 29 | Pictures , still and moving , can inform and excite through the eye , making real and vivid what would take a tedium of words to describe ; overhead projectors provide a more efficient , more stimulating and admirably repeatable blackboard ; records and tapes enable words , music and sounds to be replayed at will ; and all can be combined into patterns and programmes that do more than simply reinforce and enliven a lesson given in the traditional style . |
| 30 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |