Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 2 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 3 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 4 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 5 | Comparative studies in volunteers have shown that activated charcoal is better than either syrup of ipecacuanha or gastric lavage in reducing drug absorption . |
| 6 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 7 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 8 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 9 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 10 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 11 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 12 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 13 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 14 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 15 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 16 | You now offer a lot more than just negotiations on pay . |
| 17 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
| 18 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 19 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 20 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
| 21 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 22 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 23 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
| 24 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 25 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 26 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 27 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 28 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 29 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |