Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 32 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 33 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 34 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 35 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 36 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 37 | ( f ) when a purchaser is being sought for a holding , or aggregate holdings , of shares carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company or when the board of a company is seeking potential offerors , and : ( i ) the company is the subject of rumour and speculation , or ( ii ) there is an untoward movement in its share price , or ( iii ) the number of potential purchasers or offerors approached is about to be increased to include more than a very restricted number of people . |
| 38 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 39 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
| 40 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 41 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 42 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 43 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 44 | In 1989 Brazil faced a critical shortage of fuel alcohol , used to run more than a quarter of passenger cars , because the rise in demand ( 48 per cent since 1985 ) could not be met by the stagnating production of sugar cane . |
| 45 | Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise . |
| 46 | It was difficult for our branch of the bank , which was not allowed to keep more than a certain amount of money in the safe , and often had to send documents and money to the head branch in Parma . |
| 47 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 48 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 49 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 50 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 51 | There are many ways in which these emotional drives can be channelled , and I could not hope to name more than a few of them . |
| 52 | as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive . |
| 53 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 54 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 55 | The beauty about making the batsman hit into the V is that the bowler can pack his fielders in that area of the field and make it extremely difficult for the batsman to score more than a single . |
| 56 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 57 | This was illustrated most illuminatingly by a recent study in which a group of people were asked to eat more than a pound of potatoes each day ( baked in their skins , not fried ) in addition to whatever other food they could manage to eat . |
| 58 | He was going to have less than a sensational report to make to his captain , Van Gelder reflected . |
| 59 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 60 | ‘ Because , by my reckoning , payment tends to get more than a little physical . ’ |