Example sentences of "[pron] were [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was glad that there were fewer than before . |
| 8 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 9 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 11 | As we have seen , they were amongst the staunchest Bolshevik supporters in the voting for the Constituent Assembly , and in Belorussia they were more than usually numerous and influential due to the fact that this territory had lain directly in the path of invading and retreating forces in the Civil War . |
| 12 | They were more than fairly high , merry as grigs , and prepared to go on all night . |
| 13 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 14 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |