Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 2 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 3 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 4 | On the other hand , a high moral tone may denounce but fails to understand the problem , which is more than simply one of human weakness . |
| 5 | he gives you a kiss which is more than neighbourly |
| 6 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 7 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 8 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 9 | Despite the congenial air of unhurried calm you are more than usually assertive and ambitious now . |
| 10 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 11 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 13 | ‘ In any case , Lucy happens to be someone who is more than just staff — as you put it . |
| 14 | ‘ Penny is in and out every few minutes at present , and we do n't want her to guess that we 're more than just owner and programme manager , do we ? ’ |
| 15 | Mr Major , he said , wanted to use the move towards the year 2000 to ‘ celebrate our civilisation and leave some mark that we were more than just , hopefully , a successful entrepreneurial society . ’ |
| 16 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |
| 17 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 18 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 19 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 20 | He was glad that there were fewer than before . |
| 21 | ‘ So there 's more than just a missing husband , ’ Myra mused . |
| 22 | Now it 's feared that there 's more than just the family fortunes at stake . |
| 23 | There 's more than enough here for two . ’ |
| 24 | But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR . |
| 25 | Although the results from the unusual condition were slightly equivocal , the difference in results between the central and peripheral detail suggests that there is more than just a von Restorff effect present . |
| 26 | There is more than just an element of truth in this conception . |
| 27 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 28 | Did you stop to think that there is more than enough going on in Cambodia to make people reflect pretty carefully about participating in the election at all — and that the fact that 4.7m of them registered ( for which they received nothing whatsoever in material terms ) might just suggest that they really would like to exercise the vote ? |
| 29 | You know , there was more than enough really . |
| 30 | And as you see , the numbers with which I credit him are more than enough . |