Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
2 | Hit and run were the tactics , the Australians preferring to kill five or six Japanese than risk casualties to themselves by tarrying longer to kill more enemy in one skirmish . |
3 | But what it shows is how , right from the earliest days , we were always much more than assembly line workers in Malcolm McLaren 's dream factory . |
4 | Fortunately , much more than rote learning of ‘ trays , trolleys and treatments ’ is now expected , and a preoccupation with rigid routines is a thing of the past . |
5 | However , there are very few people who know how to survey and excavate underwater , and because it tends to cost so much more than land archaeology it needs to be a very worthwhile site or we have to leave it alone ’ . |
6 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
7 | The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies . |
8 | Wherever possible try to bring in physical and visual elements , so that the meeting is about much more than group discussion . |
9 | While the papacy of Pope Paul had remained uncomfortably unidentified with either ‘ progressive ’ or ‘ conservative ’ , that of John Paul became increasingly closely tied to the latter , and at times in a state of not much less than guerrilla war with the ‘ magisterium ’ of the Church 's principal theologians : a truly strange position for a pope to be in . |
10 | And a leading energy analyst , Walter Patterson , has calculated that IGCC plants cost more to build than natural-gas stations but much less than coal stations . |
11 | That Morrissey is n't giving anything real other than stock Man Of The People . |
12 | It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents per annum , many more than road accidents . |
13 | A litigant in person can not recover costs under Ord 38 , r 17 other than witness allowances and expenses , which can include the reasonable costs of consulting a solicitor . |
14 | Polybrene ( 1 ) , a polycation , allows transfection of Chinese hamster ovary ( CHO ) cells with either plasmid or genomic DNA at an efficiency about 10-fold greater than calcium phosphate mediated gene transfer ( 2 ) . |
15 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
18 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
19 | We already know that many of the existing members of the Community currently pay little more than lip service to EC directives . |
20 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
21 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
22 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
23 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
24 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
25 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
26 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
27 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
28 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
29 | The self-centred and materialistic climate of the decade corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice , narrowing perspectives to the point where conversations comprise little more than house prices or retiling the bathroom . |
30 | Second , the institutions of government , apart from the Council , did little more than process decisions made elsewhere . |