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 .
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