Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some estimates put the close of year figure at 2,050 — 150 points lower than the worst of last week 's pessimists . |
| 2 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 3 | Is she or is n't she — false hair from Antenna looks better than the real thing ! |
| 4 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 5 | The reader is invited to study this closely , since it illustrates more than the possible treatment of a pencil . |
| 6 | Such a premature baby has less than a 10 per cent chance of survival and a healthy life because the lungs are not fully developed . |
| 7 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 8 | The quality of care given during the visits matters more than the actual time spent with them . |
| 9 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 11 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 12 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 13 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 14 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 15 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 16 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 17 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 18 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 19 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 22 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 23 | The Index catalogue , Guha admits , bears more than a coincidental resemblance to that of rival Argos . |
| 24 | And now we look closer at Stan Gilligrew , he bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain well-known PR consultant . |
| 25 | And Charlie , as her lover , bears more than a passing resemblance to yesterday 's hero , James Dean . |
| 26 | The basic structures of several pavilions have yet to be completed and the biggest universal exposition ever mounted still bears more than a passing resemblance to a building site — albeit a very colourful one . |
| 27 | The voice of Bess of Hardwick can be heard ordering her household in Derby shire at the end of the sixteenth century , but less well-known women also make their appearance , including Mary-Ann , the dairymaid at Uppark in Sussex who captured the heart of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh , and Carolyn Workman , whose transfer from her father 's parsonage in Norfolk to the grandeur of The Vyne in Hampshire bears more than a passing resemblance to Fanny Price 's story in Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park . |
| 28 | He 's uglier than Corky , fatter than Phi and has less charm than Steve — in fact he bears more than a passing resemblance to Lucy ! |
| 29 | It is interesting , however , to look at his very recent designs for the chair called Elémentaire , manufactured by Ligne Roset , which bears more than a passing resemblance to the spooky opera house . |
| 30 | And as recently announced ( with applause from Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology ) , GEC has acquired the rights to build the Hitachi Process Robot , a machine which bears more than a strong resemblance to a robot made by the Swedish company ASEA . |