Example sentences of "of [verb] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will suffice to observe that those on higher assessments were mostly merchants , and the poorer ones manual workers , and to conclude that a tiny farming community was incapable of generating more than a limited demand for their services . |
| 2 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 3 | So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat . |
| 4 | They are not capable of enjoying more than a limited amount of leisure . |
| 5 | A note on a field of collecting which shows every sign of becoming more than a passing fad — that of old cheques . |
| 6 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 7 | Elsewhere on the steeper slopes leaching removes enough mineral content from the thin poor soils to render them infertile and incapable of supporting more than a poor vegetation carrying very little stock . |
| 8 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
| 9 | In the year beginning November 1917 National Service Medical Boards conducted nearly 2.5 million medical examinations in Great Britain : of every nine men , only three were perfectly fit and healthy , while two were on a definitely ‘ unfirm plane ’ of health and strength , three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and the remaining one was a chronic invalid . |
| 10 | Such ideas have probably influenced the process of teaching more than the content of courses in higher education , although they had a direct bearing on the original terms of reference of university extra-mural departments . |
| 11 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 12 | However , the WO statisticians said this county practice of estimating higher than the ‘ base estimate ’ population growth did not add up — there simply will not be enough people to reach the higher estimates , even with the historically high levels of inward migration being predicted . |
| 13 | The target beneficiary was the salaried ‘ family man ’ who , by reason of earning more than the £250 limit applied to non-manual workers , was excluded from participation in the new 1925 contributory state scheme , under which a retirement pension became payable at 65 and a modest pension became available to widows of any age ( Groves , 1983 , p. 41 ) . |