Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should then be plugged into their holders , handling them no more than is really necessary , and avoiding any obvious sources of static electricity . |
| 2 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 3 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 4 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 5 | If he had read the Duke of Edinburgh 's report or the reports of the Conservative-controlled London Boroughs Association and Association of District Councils he would know that some of his arguments were invalid — I put it no stronger than that . |
| 6 | I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon . |
| 7 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 8 | Turn to page 183 and fill in the couple to reach us no later than December 22 . |
| 9 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 10 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 11 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
| 12 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 13 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |
| 14 | The only previous controlled trial of social work help for depression ( Corney , 1981 ) had found it no better than treatment-as-usual from the GP . |
| 15 | It was another of those things , like the green car , which made him a less than perfect Moslem . |
| 16 | It would also , Owen thought , make him a less than perfect candidate for Khedive when a vacancy arose . |
| 17 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 18 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 19 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 20 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 21 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 22 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 23 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 24 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |
| 25 | By some freak of natural injustice my five tickets won me no fewer than three prizes ; not bad for a stake of 50p . |
| 26 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 27 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 28 | Darling finished the tour with 1022 runs at 34.07 , but in that strong batting line-up this gave him no better than eighth place . |
| 29 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 30 | Not only were many of his proposals radically altered by the Duma , but he encountered stiff opposition from the State Council and the Tsar himself gave him no more than lukewarm support . |