Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] than the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 Howard Wilkinson is prepared to accept less than the £2 million he paid Arsenal during the summer , Clough is keen to do business . |
| 3 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 8 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 9 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that both in terms of the quantity and impact of the crimes examined the poor suffer more than the wealthy . |
| 15 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 16 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 17 | We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so . |
| 18 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 19 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 20 | The theory that the development charge would leave the developer unwilling or unable to pay more than the existing use value for his land is not at present working out in practice , especially since a would-be house owner who pays building value to the seller of the land . |
| 21 | The sad truth is that the average collector is unlikely to recover more than the most fragmentary remains of dinosaurs . |
| 22 | As it is , basic-rate taxpayers who earn more than the £16,900 ceiling face a marginal tax rate of 25% , while those earning less than the ceiling face a rate of 34% . |
| 23 | As soon as a society is able to produce more than the bare minimum needed for survival , it is possible for classes to emerge . |
| 24 | It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 25 | It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft . |
| 26 | Although funding " crises " are endemic to the NHS , the crisis of 1987 raised more than the usual political storm , and plenty of ammunition for the Opposition in the election campaign of that year . |
| 27 | At the time , the defections did amount to this proportion , but JD leaders then expelled 25 of the defectors and claimed that , as the remaining 37 represented less than the legal quota , they should be disqualified from parliament . |
| 28 | With the exception of deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland , it has tended in practice to be very difficult to attribute more than the most limited amount of crime to any kind of underlying ideological commitment . |
| 29 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 30 | Brannen produced his best decathlon at the Don Valley Stadium last summer , taking the World Student Games bronze with just 200 points fewer than the Olympic qualifying score . |