Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only a handful of US accountancy firms managed to increase their revenue by an amount significantly more than inflation over the past year . |
| 32 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 33 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 34 | Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination . |
| 35 | Not enough to worry the likes of the 85bhp Citroen AX GT perhaps , but more than competition for the 75bhp Metro GTa . |
| 36 | They stressed UNLU 's moderate demands , calling for a two state solution , mutual recognition , direct Israeli-PLO negotiations , concluding ‘ the Palestinians are calling for no more than peace with a reasonable measure of justice . ’ |
| 37 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 38 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 39 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 40 | Neither position , however , contains more than part of the truth . |
| 41 | Of course , the exhibition does rather more than nod to the past . |
| 42 | Before that happens Britain will be in no position to do much more than talk about the implications of new technology . |
| 43 | It 's it it 's more than sort of a ten minute slot in a staff meeting . |
| 44 | WITH the relegation issue in an unpredictable state , Salford 's victory at Widnes proved no more than par for the course yesterday , but they will need radical adjustments in their attacking philosophy if they are to collect further points . |
| 45 | However , elite collusion can and does entail far more than agreement on the ‘ rules of the game ’ . |
| 46 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 47 | We ca n't afford more than food at the moment . |
| 48 | Communicating effectively in business means more than familiarity with the language . |
| 49 | This type of drill , however , probably teaches little more than familiarity with the verb root . |
| 50 | There is more than ground for the suspicion that throughout , the second focus of Ritschl 's ellipse is the dominant one , and the first is made subservient to it . |
| 51 | It is , in my view , necessary for the plaintiffs to do more than point to the provisions of the statute . |
| 52 | Merrill felt her heart tilt as he said softly , ‘ But the setting does no more than justice to the subject . ’ |
| 53 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |
| 54 | Diplomats expressed no more than disappointment at the lack of progress ( but that 's why they are diplomats ) . |
| 55 | Advocates of animal rights believe that more than reform of the system is needed . |
| 56 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 57 | This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged . |
| 58 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 59 | Education , about what computers can and can not do , will be more important than training in the early stages of the project . |
| 60 | One should , for example , mention guild socialism which was much more concerned than Fabianism about the problems of establishing a strong , centralized bureaucracy and which promoted a pluralist theory of the state . |