Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [noun] of " 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 | Perhaps that is why sounds are recognised more accurately ( Hublet , Morais and Bertelson , 1977 ) to the right of a subject and appear louder than sounds of equal intensity heard on the subject 's left ( Kellar , 1978 ; Wexler and Halwes , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Against this background the Conservatives fell back almost everywhere , only obtaining greater than 50% of the vote in the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's home district , Huntingdonshire . |
| 9 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |