Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] 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 | At first , there will be little to see other than an area of dirty , discoloured water , possibly hot or ‘ boiling ’ , and probably with a good many dead fish floating around in it . |
| 3 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If Howard Wilkinson is prepared to accept less than the £2 million he paid Arsenal during the summer , Clough is keen to do business . |
| 6 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This includes more than a few in the occult . |
| 9 | This seems more than a simple displacement of the fear and anxiety with which we contemplate our own old age . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This remains lower than the S4 share for June , when S4 pupils made up about a third ( 35% ) of all absentees . |
| 15 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 16 | I did n't intend this to take more than a minute . |
| 17 | The flat unjointed surface is easier to brush clean than a brick or pavior surface , with its hundreds of joints , in which soil and other spillages would collect . |
| 18 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 19 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Does that look cheaper than the |
| 26 | As many as three owned less than a pound 's worth of personal property , and only four more than £20 . |
| 27 | These look drier than the ones at the back , it must be the latest one , or are they all the same ? |
| 28 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |