Example sentences of "be [adv] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , many policy statements are little more than vaguely embodied aspirations as to how parties would like to see Britain develop . |
| 2 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 3 | Apart from the destruction of schools , teachers are regarded as important community members and are often more than usually politicized . |
| 4 | Central direction has increased since 1979 but local authorities are far more than simply field agents of central government departments . |
| 5 | The UK 's reserves of lowland peat bogs are far less than previously thought , according to a new survey by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC ) — the scientific umbrella group for the government 's three national conservation agencies in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 6 | Following the 86th OPEC Conference , Air Vice-Marshal Ginandjar Kartasasmita , the Indonesian Minister of Mines and Energy , commented on Nov. 30 that OPEC output in the first half of 1990 would probably be not less than about 22,500,000 bpd , and that the 22,086,000 bpd ceiling agreed for that period reflected a pragmatic approach which " assumed overproduction " . |
| 7 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 8 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 9 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 10 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 11 | ‘ People become Christians as a wave of decisions for Christ sweeps through the group mind , involving many individual decisions but being far more than merely their sum . |
| 12 | The rumours were now more than just loud , they were deafening . |
| 13 | The American influences on English Nonconformity were far more than just catchy songs , the taking of collections during services , ‘ American organs ’ and individual communion cups . |
| 14 | Their lives were far more than just hard . |
| 15 | On the other hand it is now accepted that Kennedy 's lengthy telephone calls to Macmillan fell short of " consultation " even if Macmillan 's official biographer argues that they " were certainly more than just 'informative' " . |
| 16 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 17 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |
| 18 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
| 19 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 20 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
| 21 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 22 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
| 23 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 24 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 25 | Suddenly , after battling all season with Manchester City for third place in the First Division , the Wednesday player-manager finds that finishing second is now more than just a pipe dream . |
| 26 | It is now more than ever clear that every section of society needs to be involved in responding to AIDS , including the churches . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , you see , it is now more than ever that practising politicians need the help of disinterested trained historians |
| 28 | Satellite studies of the Amazon rainforest by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) show that the area being felled each year is far less than previously estimated . |
| 29 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 30 | A pub , like any other old building , is far more than just its principle facade , or its four walls . |