Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more easterly of the two valley roads which combine at Pierrefitte takes you first to the charming town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur , which may look like one place but is really two , with more than just a hyphen dividing them . |
| 2 | Does he agree that the law should be changed so that the police have a duty rather than just a power to act under section 39 ? |
| 3 | But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick . |
| 4 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 5 | The Beta version of Ultrafax from WordStar/Zsoft we 've been pre-viewing is the link between your Windows applications and the rest of the world 's fax machines , but offers more than just the facility to print your documents remotely . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 7 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 8 | Spenser 's depictions in Book V are more than just an attempt to justify Grey . |
| 9 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 10 | Was it more than just an in-joke to make George 's chauffeur go under the name of Chomsky ? |
| 11 | You indeed have more of your delight than ever the other did , it seems to me ! " ) |
| 12 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 13 | In the whole of 1991 , 139,810 diesel models were registered , representing an 8.78pc penetration more than double the figure achieved five years ago . |
| 14 | The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) . |
| 15 | In the same period , figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that 221,900 mortgages ( 2.3 per cent of the outstanding stock ) were more than six months in arrears , compared with 109,370 ( 1.2 per cent of the outstanding stock ) a year earlier , and that 36,610 dwellings were repossessed ( 0.4 per cent of the outstanding stock of mortgages ) , more than double the number recorded a year earlier . |
| 16 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 17 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |
| 18 | When this process becomes revolutionary upheaval is not always easy to identify and the decision as to whether it was a radical reinterpretation rather than simply an adjustment depends on the observer 's standpoint . |
| 19 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 20 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |