Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The search must be no more than reasonably required for the purposes of discovering such evidence and there must be reasonable grounds for believing that such evidence will be found . |
2 | International migration has played a part since young adults and families are more than proportionately represented in these flows , but the prime factor is the variation in the size of age groups resulting from previous fluctuations in births . |
3 | Eisner and Nowicki suggest that the occasional missed meal is more than adequately compensated for by the preservation of the web . |
4 | Many of the skills already possessed by chartered accountants are more than adequately demonstrated in their training experience to date ; corporate finance is one such area , as is taxation . |
5 | Jazz and blues fans are more than adequately catered for with shows by some of the best musicians from both home and abroad . |
6 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |
7 | And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's . |
8 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
9 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
10 | Other people 's nationalism is never easy to fathom , but Panama 's is more than usually overlaid with issues of race ( white and black ) and class ( rich and poor ) . |
11 | I believe that his suspicions in this regard were more than amply fuelled by the activities of Marcia Williams , who also was a great believer in the conspiracy theory . |
12 | These expansions , furthermore , introduce ideas no more than potentially implied in the Horatian phrase : " renews the plain " , " fashion " , " suffers " , " shakes " . |
13 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
14 | Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research . |
15 | It included $2,890 million for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) programme ( $1,700 million less than originally requested by the Defence Department ) ; $2,350 million for the B-2 Stealth bomber project ; $688 million for the MX and Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile programmes ( although no funds were authorized for MX rail deployment ) ; $1,840 million for the purchase of 52 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles ; and $964 million for the development of a new generation of fighter aircraft . |