Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 2 | ‘ True , we must not put them in more danger than is needful . |
| 3 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 4 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 5 | ‘ No , of course not , Julia , ’ said Anthony , smiling at her with more sympathy than he had managed to show for weeks . |
| 6 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 7 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 8 | The orchestra contains pairs of horns and trumpets , but Leppard manages it with more lightness than he accords other work and textures are accordingly more transparent and Mozartian . |
| 9 | If we take criticism out of its academic context and apply it to more things than literature , it is evident that comparisons of value are fundamental to it . |
| 10 | Using the Post Office also provides us with more branches than all the other clearing banks put together . |
| 11 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |