Example sentences of "[verb] [det] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 2 | If we are to study the genetics of quantitative characters we should aim to know less than the exact genotype responsible for each phenotype . |
| 3 | Feminism is a given — but I want more than the political outline . |
| 4 | The following are our special letter services which you should use when you want more than the ordinary letter post . |
| 5 | The following are our special letter services , which you should use when you want more than the ordinary post . |
| 6 | The reader is invited to study this closely , since it illustrates more than the possible treatment of a pencil . |
| 7 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 8 | The quality of care given during the visits matters more than the actual time spent with them . |
| 9 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 10 | This sponge superficially resembles a living bath sponge more than the other sponges in this book , being bun-shaped , with a minutely pitted external surface . |
| 11 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 12 | Lear drew more than the short straw on the Birds of Europe . |
| 13 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 14 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 15 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 16 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 17 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 18 | Only rarely do plans consider more than the simple spatial attributes of the housing stock . |
| 19 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 20 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |
| 21 | Historians of science who want to understand the development of contemporary theories will need more than the printed journals , they will need access to the electronic resource . |
| 22 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 23 | MANY readers have made enquiries about Treble Chance entries that cover more than the popular 16-match total . |
| 24 | When soils receive more than the critical load , the natural capacity to neutralize acidity is overwhelmed , cations ( e.g. calcium ) are leached out , phosphorus is retained and aluminium and trace metals appear in the soil water . |
| 25 | If negotiations yield more than the required rise then too much scrapping may result , generating unemployment . |
| 26 | The reverse happens when flying southerly headings and the compass will show more than the actual amount of the turn , so carry on past your actual heading . |
| 27 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 28 | The German companies distinguished less than the British ones between careers and departments for production management and production engineering , work planning and work execution functions . |
| 29 | These CDs cost more than the major company ones , but this is fair enough since the higher costs have to be spread over a smaller volume . |
| 30 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |