Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] than [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 2 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 4 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 5 | Note that suppliers are not obliged to offer anything more than cash compensation . |
| 6 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 7 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |