Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 2 | Nowadays the mid-1950s rock craze seems to provoke nothing more than a nostalgic chuckle , and when the original Teds are remembered at all within the contemporary preoccupation with hooliganism it is as something quaint and remarkably innocent . |
| 3 | Of course this would be easier for you — a middle-aged man is more likely to find someone attractive than a middle-aged woman — but if I am prepared to accept this disadvantage , why should you grumble ? |
| 4 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |
| 5 | I mean , you are n't going to find anything cheaper than the caravan . |
| 6 | Quite simply it is the refusal to accept anything other than the best . |
| 7 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 8 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 9 | ‘ For the moment it 's simply refusing to remember anything other than the pleasant things , Leonora . ’ |
| 10 | It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations . |
| 11 | It would be foolish to expect anything other than the worst from this tour . |
| 12 | There was nothing in Luke 's voice to suggest anything more than a mild curiosity , but Fran could feel the tension radiating from his powerful body as he leant forward in the seat . |
| 13 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 15 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 16 | They argue that a socialist alternative is not offered because the Labour Party is not so much concerned to abolish capitalism as to manage it better than the other parties . |
| 17 | Even though he was teething , he was not particularly resistant , so there was no reason to use anything other than a plain cavesson noseband . |
| 18 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 19 | But realistically it is hard to predict anything other than a 100 per cent success rate for the All Blacks in Ireland . |
| 20 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 21 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 22 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 23 | Finite state grammars are unable to represent anything other than a very simple sequence . |
| 24 | Yet although this turned out to be the case and Edna 's and Bert 's spells at Four Winds gave Harriet increasing support , she was still unable to rouse Liza out of her permanent lethargy or to get her further than the garden gate . |
| 25 | Even after bidding a fond farewell to Ben and Carole Meadows , there still had n't been the opportunity to have anything other than a few brief casual words with Ross as he 'd driven them all back to New York . |
| 26 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 27 | Quorn remains a fungus and , compared to our continental cousins , the British are notoriously suspicious of fungi and reluctant to eat anything other than the familiar field mushroom . |
| 28 | Commentary … allows us to say something other than the text itself , but on condition that it is the text itself which is said , and in a sense completed . |
| 29 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 30 | Some register entries are so rudimentary that they are unable to support anything more than a basic inventory . |