Example sentences of "more [noun sg] than [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 2 | But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending . |
| 3 | No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable . |
| 4 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 5 | It also put the man who has won more money than anyone else in golf within reach of the $8 million mark . |
| 6 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 7 | The charity argues that in return those parents deserve far more support than they currently receive . |
| 8 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 9 | any more vote than anybody else . |
| 10 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |
| 11 | The key question here — and it is not easy to answer — is whether Edinburgh , by employing Women in the period from the 1870s to the 1900s , was attracting more work than it otherwise would have from London and other publishers ; or whether it was merely managing to prevent the work leaving Edinburgh altogether for cheaper printing centres . |
| 12 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 13 | Yeah , well we do n't so a lot of business with them , it 's more distribution than anybody else actually . |
| 14 | His heartbreaking search across the world has now brought him more joy than he ever wished for — and more than 100 relatives ! |
| 15 | Americans had more nature than anything else except money , and they got pretty excited about that too . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied with far more confidence than she actually felt . |
| 17 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 18 | His remark flashed through her head , stirring her anger , making her respond to André with much more warmth than she normally would have . |
| 19 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 20 | Shmueli for example argues that ‘ relationism ’ deserves more credit than it traditionally receives and that a ‘ dynamic synthesis ’ can lead to a new type of objectivity in the social sciences ( Shmueli 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Plants in pots and containers require more water than you actually might think , the smaller the pot the more critical the problem . |
| 22 | And as to this present situation one of us is going to tire eventually , ’ Maggie pointed out tartly with more bravery than she really felt . |
| 23 | The building had one of those brightly timbered exteriors which assert more age than they probably possess . |
| 24 | Men with more sense than we ever had . |
| 25 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 26 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 27 | It 's the richness of the language — that we know more filth than anybody else . |
| 28 | Bigger hooks and baits and heavier indicators brought more success than anything else I had tried . |
| 29 | THE apparent squabble between the South African government and the ANC over the precise nature of their agreement on the immediate political future is more show than anything else . |
| 30 | That is not easy , since the directors engaged in buying the company clearly have more information than anybody else . |