Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 2 | ‘ A real book needs more than just a good writer . |
| 3 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 4 | I have a feeling that most women want more than just a casual affair . |
| 5 | If you want more than just an ordinary bathroom , Dolphin can provide all the help and advice you 'll need to create the complete special bathroom . |
| 6 | The deaf are finding that their hearing aids are amplifying more than just the voices of their friends . |
| 7 | It 's no secret that Mansell has more than just a soft spot for Frank Williams , and indeed has enjoyed lots of success at Williams in the past . |
| 8 | There are many ways of saving for an event like a wedding that will make sure that you can buy more than just the confetti . |
| 9 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
| 10 | To compete in business you 'll need more than just a good idea — you 'll need commercial ability and experience to create that viable growing concern . |
| 11 | However , people do often need more than just a diet , as there may be psychological reasons why they ca n't manage to stay slim . ’ |
| 12 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 13 | You may need to purchase more than just the anemone you require . |
| 14 | But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy . |
| 15 | Indeed , the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts . |
| 16 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 17 | The purpose of this chapter is to describe the rest of the machinery through which the political leadership operates outside Whitehall and this includes more than just the system of local government . |
| 18 | It seems they must have had more than just a message . |
| 19 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 20 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 21 | The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid . |
| 22 | However , one detects more than just a hint of resentment when he talks of the ‘ middle-class ’ , who , with their penchant for rationalisation and organisation , appear to have appropriated the game . |
| 23 | you get more than just the highlights of the news . |
| 24 | ‘ They never seem to last more than about a week . ’ |
| 25 | Access requires more than just the existence of possibilities . |
| 26 | They 'll find out it takes more than just a little hope |
| 27 | The selection can contain more than just the numbers you wish to sum so you could have in your document Apples 20 ; Pears 25 ; Oranges 36 and having marked the passage you would use the command Ctrl-K-M ( Block math ) and see a message : |
| 28 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 29 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 30 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |