Example sentences of "[det] than [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's more to this than questions of individual fitness . |
| 2 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 3 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 4 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 5 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 6 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 7 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 8 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 9 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 10 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 11 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 12 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 13 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 14 | In effect , he suggested that the social and economic divisions were more than ones of mere occupational group . |
| 15 | Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism . |
| 16 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 17 | But those more than hints of fine ensemble playing were amply realised the next night in the Dvorak , elegant and warm , crafted with care , and in Strauss 's Serenade from Capriccio . |
| 18 | All these may be no more than attempts of testing control while there may be an underlying awareness that all is not well . |
| 19 | The UN will provide legitimacy for what are little more than acts of international piracy and entirely consistent with the new world order strategy of ‘ destroy and abandon ’ . |
| 20 | The desk was anonymous and modern , blockboard veneered with mahogany , the legs no more than sticks of black metal . |
| 21 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 22 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 23 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 24 | Outside his own domain ( the Ile-de-France ) the king often had no more than powers of general protection . |
| 25 | Word of his prowess with the chanthu had spread , Alexei knew , and quarrels were seldom more than exchanges of acid words as a result , because were he to be challenged the choice of weapons would be his . |
| 26 | They 're no more than extensions of their machines , hands to do the computer 's will . |
| 27 | La Doriclea ( 1645 ) is notable for its number of choral scenes , which were clearly sung by genuine choruses — unlike the cori which were commonly no more than ensembles of soloists . |
| 28 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 29 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 30 | ‘ Uneven development ’ relates to far more than numbers of jobs and levels of unemployment . |