Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 2 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 3 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
| 4 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 5 | For some countries , including Britain and Spain , it seems likely that a softer , more automatic ERM would be better than both the existing ERM and no ERM at all . |
| 6 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 7 | Last year , 45 per cent of recorded crime was cleared up — more than double the average rate in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 9 | By 2031 the average number of homes passed on each year , excluding bequests to spouses , could be 343,000 — more than double the current average ( see chart ) . |
| 10 | It was identified as a six gilled shark weighing 315lbs — more than double the current Irish record of 154lbs landed by Essex angler Andrew Bull in 1968 . |
| 11 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 12 | Of the 383 state production plans , 148 had been unable to meet their target — more than double the previous figure of 65 . |
| 13 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
| 14 | The word ‘ habitat ’ implies more than simply the physical environment of an animal . |
| 15 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |
| 16 | Because of the connection with prostitutes , pornography means more than just the graphic depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity . |
| 17 | In summary , humans employ much more than just the visual stimuli when reading . |
| 18 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 19 | The construction of villages where beds could be had by tourists for more than just the two months of July and August was advocated in suitably selected places . |
| 20 | As far as any future evaluation is concerned , if we adopt this definition of support teaching , it is obvious that more than just the traditional concerns with pupil progress in specific skills areas will need to be taken into account . |
| 21 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
| 22 | But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy . |
| 23 | ‘ More than just the next trip . |
| 24 | Sport is exercise that satisfies more than just the physical needs of our body ; it is exercise that aims to fulfil other sets of needs and drives . |
| 25 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 26 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 27 | In the case of local politics , should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy ? |
| 28 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 29 | that the load is more than just the initial action of my division |
| 30 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |