Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines . |
| 2 | Seven supplements , 136 pages and a rolling roster of high profile commentators aggressively signal the ST 's intention to represent ‘ every shade of opinion ’ even if , given the paper 's overall ideological complexion , some of the captured names suggest little more than tokenism . |
| 3 | The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would . |
| 4 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 5 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 6 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 7 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 8 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 9 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 10 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 11 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 12 | And liking some more than others . |
| 13 | The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies . |
| 14 | This was his war and she did not understand it ; did not understand any more than Bella , what it was like ‘ up there . ’ |
| 15 | Did he believe any more than Robert did ? |
| 16 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 17 | Before that happens Britain will be in no position to do much more than talk about the implications of new technology . |
| 18 | We already know that many of the existing members of the Community currently pay little more than lip service to EC directives . |
| 19 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 20 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 21 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 22 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 23 | Inns provided much more than accommodation , for they were the venues for feasts and banquets , cultural and social activities , business ventures and political affairs . |
| 24 | Currently , each of the MDOs has a similar subscription structure : dentists pay less than doctors , some non-clinical staff pay much less than clinicians , and junior doctors pay on a sliding scale reaching the full rate after 7 years . |
| 25 | The bomb , he believed , could not be destroyed by counter bombs any more than violence could be countered by violence . |
| 26 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 27 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 28 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 29 | Likewise on glaciers , tight ropes should prevent anybody from ever dropping much more than waist deep into a hidden crevasse — a position from which the victim can usually be dragged out . |
| 30 | His system would mean that single householders on good incomes would pay much more than houses containing two or more people who , together , had poor incomes . |