Example sentences of "[det] than [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is more skill to this than many people realize . |
| 2 | She was probably , she realised , shorter on this than most people . |
| 3 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 4 | We seem to be more alert to that than many others ; hence our firm determination , which was re-emphasised by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , to make subsidiarity work . |
| 5 | I train at least three times a week and have learned more about Japan and the Japanese from that than any textbook . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Your little green chaps are no more than that snake really , are n't they ? |
| 8 | Might be more than that Martine and Mrs she had the next caravan to , to me |
| 9 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 10 | Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar . |
| 11 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 12 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 13 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 14 | and what 's more you have to have more than that Tim . |
| 15 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 16 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 17 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 18 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 19 | If more than that number is required , requests must be supported by good reasons , and will require to be counter-signed by C Will , G Lomas or R Pankhurst . |
| 20 | I ca n't assume from my background that I can trust all theories any more than all accountants or all lawyers . |
| 21 | Alas , in most gardens , especially suburban , most of the Old and shrub roses will hardly be thought suitable ( size alone rules them out ) but that is not to say all will be unsuitable , any more than all H.T.s and Floribundas are really suitable . |
| 22 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 23 | It is not our wish to profit from such assignment , and in the unlikely event of our recovering more than such compensation and costs , any excess will be paid to the injured clients . |
| 24 | Your daily portion of Fibre-Filler provides 15g of dietary fibre , which is more than many Britons normally consume in a day . |
| 25 | Aye , and I have all me hair and most of me teeth and that 's more than many men ten years younger can boast of ! ’ |
| 26 | His record pay-off cost more than this year 's dividends to all the shareholders in Murdoch 's News International company . |
| 27 | more than this year and three times as many as in 1990-91 . |
| 28 | After allowing for the community charge grant , which is now part of aggregate external finance , that is almost £300 million more than this year — an increase of 6.1 per cent . |
| 29 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 30 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |