Example sentences of "than [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 2 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 3 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 4 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 5 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |