Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
2 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
3 | There is a simple linear hierarchy in groups of less than about ten hens . |
4 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
5 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
6 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
7 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
8 | The Queen 's arrival at the New Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes was the beginning of more than just another royal visit . |
9 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
10 | Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour . |
11 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
12 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
13 | Continuity between the two fabliaux in the case of animal imagery is a matter of more than just a general resemblance . |
14 | A random cholesterol estimation of greater than approximately 6.5 mmol/l in a diabetic patient aged less than 60 years should be repeated after a 1 2-hour overnight fast ( and taken before morning hypoglycaemic therapy ) on two further occasions to establish the diagnosis of hyperlipidaemia . |
15 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
16 | So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees . |
17 | Indeed the only blips on the horizon are the reluctance of the natural trumpets to ‘ really go for the burn ’ in the opening and closing choruses and ‘ Fecit potentiam ’ , and a couple of less than clearly focused notes from the tenor Marcus Brutscher , in the ‘ Deposuit ’ , in the context of what is otherwise a truly virtuoso performance . |