Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 3 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 5 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 6 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 7 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 8 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 9 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 10 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 11 | The girl comes to see that she has less than the boy , and has been castrated already . |
| 12 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 13 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 14 | I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual . |
| 15 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 16 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 17 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 18 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 19 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 20 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 21 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 22 | A management which does not do this betrays more than the shareholders in the business ; it betrays the employees and the nation as a whole . |
| 23 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 24 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 25 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 26 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 27 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 28 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 29 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 30 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |