Example sentences of "[det] than [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one was more aware of this than Francisco Franco . |
| 2 | It is aimed either at the external hacker of which there are far fewer than press reports suggest or at the employee who though they have legitimate access legitimate lim limited access to a computer , nevertheless go beyond that authorization , but in order for the act to be successful , in order to get a successful prosecution , the prosecution have got to show that the access was unauthorized , and in the absence of clear codes of conduct , clear on-screen messages , that can be quite tricky . |
| 3 | The Fund does not cover the overseas branch offices of MNPs with fewer than 75% solicitor principals . |
| 4 | Overseas branch offices also have compulsory cover under the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , except in the case of an MNP having fewer than 75% solicitor principals . |
| 5 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 6 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 7 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 8 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 9 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 10 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 11 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 12 | Even if the Carlists were unlikely ever to possess more than nuisance value , the Falange , with its wider appeal and rapid growth-rate , was a different matter . |
| 13 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 14 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 15 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 16 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 17 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 18 | When the Minister announced the scheme I described the measures as ’ no more than damage limitation measures . |
| 19 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 20 | It has romped in with profits of £5m since it was acquired from the Virgin airlines boss in June and should make more than Pounds 40m to £50m in the full year . |
| 21 | Since birth weight ( and viability ) in the teens increases dramatically with rising age and , inasmuch as higher parity among women under age 20 also meant higher maternal age in that age class , decreasing infant mortality in this age group by birth order may be more than chance variation . |
| 22 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 23 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 24 | The other problem is that , while the UK coal industry is producing more than UK demand , the surplus it produces can not be sold economically to other buyers because it is too expensive to produce . |
| 25 | In 1985–86 a further reduction in employment , to 621,000 , was more rapid than in UK-owned plants and showed a net reduction in jobs of a full third compared with 1978 , slightly more than UK industry . |
| 26 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 27 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 28 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 29 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 30 | The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place . |