Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse . |
| 2 | It will suffice to observe that those on higher assessments were mostly merchants , and the poorer ones manual workers , and to conclude that a tiny farming community was incapable of generating more than a limited demand for their services . |
| 3 | They are not capable of enjoying more than a limited amount of leisure . |
| 4 | A note on a field of collecting which shows every sign of becoming more than a passing fad — that of old cheques . |
| 5 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 6 | Elsewhere on the steeper slopes leaching removes enough mineral content from the thin poor soils to render them infertile and incapable of supporting more than a poor vegetation carrying very little stock . |
| 7 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
| 8 | In the year beginning November 1917 National Service Medical Boards conducted nearly 2.5 million medical examinations in Great Britain : of every nine men , only three were perfectly fit and healthy , while two were on a definitely ‘ unfirm plane ’ of health and strength , three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and the remaining one was a chronic invalid . |
| 9 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 10 | Both Wagamama and Belgo are open every day from midday until eleven , neither accepts bookings , and you can get away with spending less than a tenner in either . |
| 11 | These overwhelmingly negative attitudes prevent many people from seeing more than a grey head . |
| 12 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 13 | Even the Salvation Army , formed specifically with the ‘ unrespectable ’ poor in mind , hardly succeeded in becoming more than a welcome addition to free public entertainment ( with its uniforms , bands and lively hymns ) , and a useful source of charity . |
| 14 | Plus he 's English , which is very important in European games when the UEFA ruling prevents you from fielding more than a couple of non-nationals . |
| 15 | This ensures that the manager seeks the artist 's permission before spending more than a certain amount of money . |
| 16 | We 've got five weeks discouraged from taking more than a fortnight at a time . |
| 17 | He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself . |
| 18 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 19 | But in the Old World , on the whole , the need for a mobile population was met without creating more than a comparatively modest and impermanent floating population , except in the great shipping ports and , as it were , in the traditional centres of the shifting and shiftless population , such as the great cities . |
| 20 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 21 | SPOTTED in the West End , a begging notice stating : ‘ Do n't embarrass yourself by leaving less than a pound . ’ |