Example sentences of "[is] [adj] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I think it 's better than too short anyway .
2 The new method of showing the information for a VAT return ( it looks just like one of the horrid things ) is more than just useful , it 's a Godsend , and once you 've got into the methodology , invoice raising and bill paying as well as stock control become very quick and easy .
3 Whether this lopsided record and Stewart 's stewardship is more than just coincidental will be a matter for the Test and County Cricket Board to discuss when his contract comes up again next April .
4 This is more than just instrumental self-aggrandizement , because this ‘ market forces ’ approach is an important ideological device in ‘ recommodification ’ , but the form of involvement is highly instrumental for many participants .
5 And this is more than just drinkable , it is an enormous , fruit-packed wine , smelling sublimely of ripe blackcurrants .
6 The suburban southern venue for the selection board is more than just convenient ( a sortie into Lancashire was abandoned after the second session ) , it is a metaphor for the new style of the party .
7 This is more than just crass .
8 Somerset is more than just pretty scenery
9 But it is more than slightly worrying to find it still rampant in a largish UK company .
10 If software flow control is used , the Z88 will send XOFF to an external device once the receive buffer is more than half full .
11 Moreover , under section 245 of the Code , bodily harm includes any hurt or injury that interferes with the health or comfort of the complainant and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature .
12 In times of severe economic stringency , it is more than ever essential that painful strategic choices should be based on sound information about the need for and effectiveness of services .
13 ‘ The need for action is more than ever apparent , ’ said Coun. John Williams ( Lab ) .
14 This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy .
15 but obviously I must succeed for Yorkshire first , and with a batsman , Sachin Tendulkar , joining us instead of another quick bowler it is more than ever important that I do so . ’
16 The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek .
17 ‘ Myth is alive at once and in all its parts , and dies before it can be dissected ’ , declared Tolkien , and his statement is more than usually true of The Lord of the Rings , as I have said on p. 100 above .
18 In mania — technically referred to , unless extremely severe , as ‘ hypomania ’ — the individual is more than usually active , is distractible and talkative to the point where meaningful conversation is impossible , is expansive and grandiose in attitude with an inflated sense of self-importance , and may embark on reckless activities , such as unrealistic spending , gambling , or sexual indiscretions .
19 This might involve representing their position ( abilities , preferences , intentions ) in a way that is less than completely honest , or even , perhaps , downright dishonest .
20 To be fair , none of the players here is less than extremely competent , but there are moments when the piano tone appears monochrome or lacking in warmth .
21 Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed .
22 It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’
  Next page