Example sentences of "than an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVERY TIME more than an inch of snow falls on London , the questions are the same . |
| 2 | More than an inch of rain fell in the early hours at Aberporth in Cardigan Bay , six miles from the River Teifi estuary where a helicopter rescue was mounted yesterday after caravans were deluged by a flash flood . |
| 3 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 4 | The telescope covers energies from 20MeV to over 20GeV with more than an order of magnitude greater sensitivity than the SAS-2 or COS-B instruments , as well as improved resolution in energy , angle and timing measurements . |
| 5 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 6 | I have to say that I can not at present conceive of any circumstances in which this would be other than an abuse of power as directly or indirectly requiring the practitioner to act contrary to the fundamental duty which he owes to his patient . |
| 7 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 8 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal has held that , in the context of criminal proceedings , the Code is sufficiently similar to legislation that its construction is an issue of law and therefore for the judge rather than an issue of fact to be determined by the jury . |
| 10 | He told George Seferis that , in his prose writings , the need for honesty and clarity entailed the kind of elaborate elucidation which audiences found dull ; but this was now the manner that Eliot adopted , and it is possible to see the equivocations and hesitations of his later prose work as aspects of what was essentially a Socratic method of inquiry rather than an expression of caution or indecision . |
| 11 | A conviction — or , for that matter , an acquittal — by a jury is no more than an expression of opinion by at least ten out of twelve people about the defendant 's guilt . |
| 12 | A defeat on a specific issue does not lead to the resignation of a government ; it is no more than an expression of dissatisfaction designed to force the Cabinet to change its policy . |
| 13 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |
| 14 | Cobden 's liberal pacifism was , as we have seen , more than an ideology of protest . |
| 15 | In 1583 the Woodcocks were back ‘ with divers ... desperate and lewde persons ’ who ‘ in riotous manner dug ... one myghty diche more like in truthe a defence to have kepte owte some forren enemyes than an inclosure to keepe in cattell ’ . |
| 16 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 17 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |
| 18 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |
| 19 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 20 | The communiqué urged prudence , calling for the " reallocation " rather than an expansion of government spending in some countries , and warned others , such as Italy , to reduce their budget deficits . |
| 21 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 22 | Nothing is more likely to damage your career than an accusation of misconduct . |
| 23 | Harry went in , enquired and was given , with no more than an eyebrow-twitch of puzzlement , a comprehensive catalogue of Shepherd & Woodward 's university wares . |
| 24 | It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method . |
| 25 | I ca n't think of a better meal than an omelette with salad and French bread . |
| 26 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 27 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 28 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 29 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 30 | It was less than an hour from dusk , and we would have camped there had it been left to me . |