Example sentences of "[det] than the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 2 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 3 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 4 | On occasion , zones will be requested to submit notional breakdowns on their expenditure for the forthcoming year , but such submissions are often no more than the haziest guides to real expenditure . |
| 5 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 6 | He is more than the greatest of stroke-players and he was patient enough to take advantage of Robertson 's flagging energy and win 12-15 , 9-15 , 15-5 , 15-12 , 15-8 . |
| 7 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 8 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 9 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 10 | In reality , little more than the faintest outlines of such a legislative model can be detected . |
| 11 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 12 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 13 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
| 14 | In relation to primary education , they found considerable variation , with the most generous authority spending 70 per cent more than the lowest authority . |
| 15 | Gilman Mr vice chairman could be the real reason … when building the East Stand the contract went to GMI who bid 2m more than the lowest bidder . |
| 16 | Scots spend £7.40 a week on tobacco , more than 50pc more than the lowest region , the south-east of England , which spends just £4.50 . |
| 17 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 18 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 19 | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer . |
| 20 | His overcrowded programme allowed no time for more than the barest formalities between himself and Merrill , and his manner was coolly polite — a situation for which , she told herself , she was profoundly grateful . |
| 21 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 22 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 23 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 24 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 25 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 26 | The casket was an idea introduced from the United States in the 1870s and does not , therefore , make more than the briefest possible appearance in this history of the English trade . |
| 27 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 28 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 29 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 30 | At home they propagate a mythological aura about their secret sales expertise , often no more than the latest gimmicks applied to age-old techniques . |