Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 2 | The temples were much more than centres of worship . |
| 3 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 4 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 5 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 6 | The UN will provide legitimacy for what are little more than acts of international piracy and entirely consistent with the new world order strategy of ‘ destroy and abandon ’ . |
| 7 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 8 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 9 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 10 | Scientific research has shown that crystals are far more than clusters of beautiful , but inanimate , minerals . |
| 11 | ‘ Uneven development ’ relates to far more than numbers of jobs and levels of unemployment . |
| 12 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |
| 13 | What interested me particularly about Bennett 's work was another statistic which emerged — that in 1976 , considerably fewer than 17% of the primary schools in the study could be described as progressive and that 83% were ‘ middle of the way ’ or formal . |
| 14 | Word of his prowess with the chanthu had spread , Alexei knew , and quarrels were seldom more than exchanges of acid words as a result , because were he to be challenged the choice of weapons would be his . |