Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 32 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
| 33 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 34 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 35 | The war was not a concept which claimed Julia 's attention any more than land girls . |
| 36 | Bees do not need to be labelled ‘ Honey ’ any more than honey pots do : all that 's needed in each case is a memorably distinctive appearance . |