Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | What they see is three men — the Hebrew makes this clearer than the English . ) |
| 3 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 4 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 5 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 6 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 7 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 8 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 9 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 10 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 11 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 12 | Is that bigger than the Empire ? |
| 13 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 14 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 15 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 16 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
| 17 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 18 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 19 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 20 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 21 | The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year . |
| 22 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 23 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 24 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 25 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 26 | not much more than a year , but they 've . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 28 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 29 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 30 | Sport is seen by many black kids as much , much more than a hobby ; in the words of decathlete Fidelius Obukw , it is ‘ a way of finding yourself . |