Example sentences of "[det] than [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 2 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 3 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 4 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 5 | Definitely on the motorway in that than the stupid Mini ! |
| 6 | There 's less fun in that than the Ideal Home mail order offer to pamper your bottom , at least if you 're a cyclist . |
| 7 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 8 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 9 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 10 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |
| 11 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 12 | ‘ Fewer than a dozen people know the contents of the speech — some at the BBC and some at Buckingham Palace . ’ |
| 13 | Nominations must be in writing , signed by not fewer than the required number of signatories , and incorporate ( or be accompanied by ) a signed declaration by the nominee that he or she is willing to serve . |
| 14 | The Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania has about 800,000 members , slightly fewer than the Catholic community . |
| 15 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 16 | How many additional votes it might receive by way of transfers from other parties is quite unpredictable : relatively fewer than the Progressive Democrats , one might surmise , because the distinction between political parties is sharper here than in Ireland , and voters could therefore prove more reluctant to give lower preferences to any but the party they most favour . |
| 17 | Just one of the regions , Northern Ireland , with eight constituency members and an assumed equal number of list members , would have fewer than the minimum total of 20 required to ensure fair representation therein for a party securing 5% of the list votes . |
| 18 | My Lords , it 's a question of cost in the long run , but er the reason that the our British Library will have fewer than the French Library is originally it was planned to have three thousand places , but er further er examination which has really been taken undertaken very , very thoroughly has proved that this is really not necessary . |
| 19 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 20 | There are hundreds of different negotiating tactics and many people are rather better at these than the critical creation of the basic plan . |
| 21 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 22 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 23 | Both show potential , but Farthing 's effort winds up little more than a diagrammatic doodle and Thompson 's feels like a hip TV sketch . |
| 24 | HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders . |
| 25 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 26 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 27 | The table is nothing more than a rough guide , not an order of merit . |
| 28 | It was a farm track , little more than a rough pathway across the fields . |
| 29 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 30 | We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life . |