Example sentences of "[prep] [det] than [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Dissatisfied with mainstream Christianity they were impressed by his apparent certainty , but he persuaded his potential British followers with more than just his Biblical knowledge . |
2 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
3 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
4 | Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines . |
5 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
6 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
7 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
8 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
9 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
10 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
11 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |