Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel are developing more than processors , they are working towards the diskless computer and demonstrated a prototype that included a small capacity solid-state C : drive containing boot information and operating system in Read Only Memory chips and new high capacity ( 40Mb ) removable flash ROM cards for storage of applications and data . |
| 2 | that we 're not actually and the thing is , with advertising here , we 're selling more than Christmas crackers . |
| 3 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 4 | Bones in organic rich soil appear to be altering more than bones in well drained sandy soil , but it is too early to attach any significance to this apparent change . |
| 5 | Now either , either we have , ei either you accept that and y y you 're saying n not only in terms of land reform is the Communist Party prepared to see poor peasants being allocated less than subsistence land but even when they are allocated land they 're being taxed on their income even though it 's well below subsistence . |
| 6 | The other problem is that , while the UK coal industry is producing more than UK demand , the surplus it produces can not be sold economically to other buyers because it is too expensive to produce . |
| 7 | if the Purchaser believes it is paying more than market value , it would be better off claiming damages in tort rather than contract ; and vice versa ; |
| 8 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 9 | Nobody , however , is squirming more than Japan 's government , whose indecision and vacillation since the Kuwait saga began have irritated everyone , the Americans above all . |
| 10 | 16 ) , and with a series of military victories which , as we learn at the end , are God 's doing more than Israel 's ( see vv. |
| 11 | They want him to have the best possible educational start , and they see children elsewhere , like Emma , getting a whole year 's schooling more than Sam . |
| 12 | But if this is to prove more than gesture politics , a number of challenges must be faced . |
| 13 | On April 24 it was announced that Than Shwe would serve as Prime Minister , a post hitherto held by Saw Maung , and the following day Than Shwe also replaced Saw Maung as C.-in-C. of the Defence Forces . |