Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Puffed Wheat an ounce would actually overflow in many bowls , so people tend to serve less than an ounce . |
| 2 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 3 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 4 | The shades of the nineteenth century seem to loom larger than the prospects of the 21st Century which is what we should be aiming for . |
| 5 | Sometimes the words themselves mean little , but the emotional impact they convey goes deeper than the intellect . |
| 6 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 7 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 8 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
| 10 | THE establishment of a £11m nature reserve on Teesside is evidence that the Government 's development corporations do have more than the interests of big business at heart . |
| 11 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 12 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
| 13 | The fact is that people do co-operate more than the self-interest model ( useful though it is ) seems to predict . |
| 14 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 15 | I think you 've spoken more than a few minutes . |
| 16 | A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes . |
| 17 | What possible reasons and motives could the Patrick Meehan Committee , consisting of a Queen 's Counsel , an MP , four solicitors and myself , have had other than a belief in Meehan 's innocence and a wish therefore to clear his name ? |
| 18 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 19 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 20 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
| 21 | As secretary of that organisation , I have to declare more than a personal interest but the presentation , during the Association 's annual dinner , held for the first time in the Debenture Holders Lounge at The All England Club , was clearly a most popular choice . |