Example sentences of "[det] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 32 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 33 | I never have more than the permitted amount of duty-free goods ; I 've never imported plants , or dogs , or drugs , or uncooked meat , or firearms ; and yet I constantly find myself wanting to turn the wheel and head for the Red Channel . |
| 34 | Under the Chester scheme , landlords pay £50 to register , but if they fail to do so and their houses contain more than the permitted number of occupants , they face fines of up to £1,000 . |
| 35 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
| 36 | To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age . |
| 37 | He had n't even used force , holding her with nothing more than the subtle movement of his mouth on hers . |
| 38 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 39 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 40 | Nevertheless it remains an excellent opening strike because , even more than the snap punch , it cocks the hips for a powerful reverse punch . |
| 41 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
| 42 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 43 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 44 | Attunement as used here means more than the mere experience ( of earth energies ) and implies some response — often called artistic inspiration and expression . |
| 45 | This is meaning in as rich an intentional sense as one is likely to get — far more than the mere instilling of ( first-order ) knowledge with which McDowell deals . |
| 46 | ( g ) Skipp is to be treated as a case where " there was much more than the mere consent of the owner . |
| 47 | If ministerial responsibility were more than the mere shadow of a name , the matter would be less important , but as it is , the Courts are the only defence of the liberty of the subject against departmental aggression . |
| 48 | more than the mere fact of existence ; it is as it were the ego quality of this existence . |
| 49 | For instance , Pythagoras ' proof that the sides of a right-angled triangle are related by the formula a N2 + b N2 = c N2 shows more than the mere fact that all right-angled triangles do have this property . |
| 50 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 51 | This lays it open to Walter Benjamin 's critique even more than the classic realist novel , for it is still further removed from his concept of storytelling . |
| 52 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
| 53 | It proposed a shot-gun marriage between two parties who , so far from having anticipated the bliss of that honourable estate , had ventured nothing much more than the frozen smile of recognition that passes for politeness between opponents who see in one another much to dislike and little to love . |
| 54 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |
| 55 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 56 | Shabby brick apartments stretch for block after block , dotted with little more than the odd liquor store , fried-chicken shack and cheque-cashing shop , well buttoned up with wire mesh and bullet-proof glass . |
| 57 | These deep structural problems are cultural and political as well as economic , and will require far more than the odd adjustment to monetary or fiscal policy if we are to begin to solve them . |
| 58 | In larger tanks the fish will establish their own territories , and little more than the odd display will be seen . |
| 59 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 60 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |