Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions . |
| 2 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 3 | Andy Macdonald has more going for him than merely the fact that he stands 6ft 8in . |
| 4 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 5 | With the current financial structuring of the service , even in trusts , until it is generally recognised that more than just a pen and speculum are required in gynaecological outpatient clinics the value of outpatient surgery will not be realised . |
| 6 | Harnesses are another popular option with owners of dachshunds , spreading the point of control more widely over the body , rather than just the neck or head . |
| 7 | You see , I think there was much more to it than just the fact that they were childless . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll have to phone Nick tonight to see if the Captain has a phone number now rather than just an address cos if I can phone him it 'll be a lot easier . |
| 9 | International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world . |
| 10 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 11 | Incidentally , bitches may not be bred from more than once a year and strictly not when under the age of two years old and dogs of two years and under may not be used at stud . |
| 12 | For many parents there is n't time to do this more than once a week or so , but it can be a rewarding time . |
| 13 | You see lots of people find that they w they do best when they join a class and they go to the class , it 's there every week and th or maybe more than once a week and that keeps them going because they are , they 're expected , it 's a definite booking , and that 's it and they can go that way . |
| 14 | By 11 , the majority of children were hit less than once a month or never . |
| 15 | The Silmarillion accordingly expresses more than once the theory that orcs were in fact captured elves ‘ by slow acts of cruelty … corrupted and enslaved ’ ( S , p. 50 ) . |
| 16 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 17 | Clearly more people liked more than ever the fare and welcoming fellowship of the Undercroft . |
| 18 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 19 | Nearly a half of all 3-year-old boys were bedwetting more than twice a week while 30 per cent of girls were . |
| 20 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 21 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 22 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 23 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 24 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 25 | In addition , the ITVA has some criteria of its own , being stricter than either the Act or the Code in its judgement of the admissibility of some statements of apparent fact or of ‘ knocking ’ copy . |
| 26 | Finally , although both tRNA species competed with the ds LTR rather efficiently ( lanes 11–14 ) , NCp7 bound the tRNAs less strongly than either the RNA or the DNA species . |
| 27 | But still more important for the laity in the Church than either the decree or chapter 4 of Lumen Gentium ( precisely on the laity ) , remains chapter 2 , ‘ The People of God ’ , which located the basic roles of all Christians in aspects of the nature of the Church deeper than the hierarchical . |
| 28 | In a general election , in December , the Conservatives , although winning more seats in the House of Commons , than either the labour or Liberal parties , had fewer than their total . |
| 29 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 30 | When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary . |