Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If Howard Wilkinson is prepared to accept less than the £2 million he paid Arsenal during the summer , Clough is keen to do business . |
| 4 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 5 | A management which does not do this betrays more than the shareholders in the business ; it betrays the employees and the nation as a whole . |
| 6 | This includes more than a few in the occult . |
| 7 | This seems more than a simple displacement of the fear and anxiety with which we contemplate our own old age . |
| 8 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 9 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 10 | It must be stressed , though , that were it is said above that the researcher will ‘ scan the library ’ for previous writings on the area of study , this means more than a casual walk past the shelves of books which seem to be vaguely related to the topic . |
| 11 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 12 | I did n't intend this to take more than a minute . |
| 13 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 14 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 15 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 16 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 17 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 18 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 19 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 20 | As many as three owned less than a pound 's worth of personal property , and only four more than £20 . |
| 21 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 22 | Choosing this road is likely to cost more than the first option , but you will at least ensure that your doors are the best that money can buy . |
| 23 | Although no single investor is supposed to have more than a 15 per cent holding the government has indicated that it may waive this requirement . |
| 24 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 25 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 26 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 27 | Whether or not we accept the particular characterization offered by opponent-process theory , it seems that conditioned suppression training is likely to involve more than the formation of a CS-shock association . |
| 28 | That takes less than a microsecond ! |
| 29 | It is unnecessary to give more than the following sketch of the widespread litigation which has attended the efforts made to bring this case to trial . |
| 30 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |