Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 2 | Neither position , however , contains more than part of the truth . |
| 3 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 4 | As the Gospel narrative unfolds we are quickly made aware that the good news signifies more than rescue from divine wrath . |
| 5 | I du n no because the school I think ends early I do n't know earlier than sort of I think sort of like June or something , but I mean I do n't know . |
| 6 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 7 | No one farmer could possibly be qualified to advise on all the options , nor could he do more than skate over them in one volume . |
| 8 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 9 | Boardroom upsets could not have done other than harm to the playing side of the club , he went on . |
| 10 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 11 | Things certainly look better than back in the late Eighties , when he went unemployed for nearly two years . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 13 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 14 | Already several of the rabbits were asleep , crouched uneasily between the thick stems , aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck . |
| 15 | Salt kept her hard at work round the house from the time she woke till late at night , with grim satisfaction in seeing her too worn out to do more than fall into bed and sleep . |
| 16 | Without time to do more than yell in protest as he set off , Sarella launched herself after him and did her utmost to keep pace . |
| 17 | While Parliament itself can regulate such matters it has shown itself reluctant to do more than call on " the good sense of M.P.s not to abuse their privilege . " |
| 18 | It is , in my view , necessary for the plaintiffs to do more than point to the provisions of the statute . |
| 19 | In the legal profession , he wonders whether such action is fair , and intends to do more than talk about it . |
| 20 | As yet , Mitch was too occupied with the rope to do more than glance in their direction . |
| 21 | The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out . |
| 22 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 23 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 24 | British unemployment is rising faster than unemployment in any country in the rest of the European Community . |
| 25 | A mortar has no wheels or other means to move it once it is on the battlefield , and so can not move other than turn on the spot to face its target . |
| 26 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 27 | That lack of leadership makes it difficult for him to do other than cavil at our figures . |
| 28 | Paradoxically , LP often fares better than SP under these conditions because the noise-bar interference on the picture tends to be less for LP . |
| 29 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd rather starve first than work for a man like that ! ’ |