Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing at the blue fabric , she noted that Ivan , ever present when least wanted , was intently watching this less than interesting encounter from a position just behind and below Henrietta 's left shoulder . |
| 2 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 3 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 4 | Students with limited time to complete an essay would do well to begin here , although they are likely to get a British perspective and , inevitably , some less than comprehensive coverage . |
| 5 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 6 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 7 | Its been another less than startling year for London-based cables and construction group BICC Plc with pre-tax profits down 4.9% at £77m on turnover that fell 3.8% to £3,647m . |
| 8 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 9 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 10 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 11 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 12 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 14 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 15 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |
| 16 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 17 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
| 18 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 19 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 20 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 21 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 22 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 23 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |
| 24 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 25 | Sexuality involves much more than sexual intercourse . |
| 26 | But do n't expect much more than pompous doggerel in the words . |
| 27 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 28 | Some Whigs were implicated in Jacobite activities , amongst them John Wildman , Charles Mordaunt ( third Earl of Monmouth ) , the Earls of Dorset and Shrewsbury , and the Duke of Bolton , although whether we should see their alleged intrigues as much more than fire-insurance Jacobitism is unclear . |
| 29 | The amount actually available for the generation of new products is , however , much less than this figure . |
| 30 | Lot 480 ( est $30,000–40,000 ) , ‘ The road — winter ’ , depicting Currier and his wife , brought $30,000 ( £21,428 ) , 8,000 more than another impression of the same print , in slightly poorer condition , made at Christie 's ( more pictures and results on page 31 ) . |