Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission expresses its anxiety that the proposed syllabus in the revised music curriculum allows less time than hitherto for choral music . |
| 2 | ‘ With the same natural effusion of good colour , ’ Hope continued , deciding that excess was more apt than enough in this instance , ‘ that I find in your own complexion , ma'am . ’ |
| 3 | History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy . |
| 4 | The first is long-term , evolutionary , and the product of centuries of often painful experience — the pain caused more often than not by repeated failure to pay a realistic Defence insurance premium . |
| 5 | The summary table above makes use , in several places , of a more finely detailed task classification than elsewhere in this chapter but the range of success rates is still very wide . |
| 6 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 7 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 8 | Whether the program will be used more than once with this class . |
| 9 | Some of the evidence in this area has been discussed more than once in scholarly literature , yet it seems that little serious attention has been paid to it , certainly by those recently recording this repertory . |
| 10 | 8.5 The Company or its appointed representative shall have the right to inspect such books or accounts and records relating to this Agreement upon reasonable notice and during normal office hours but not more than once in any calendar year . |
| 11 | His voice was filled with tenderness , his eyes dark with understanding , and she nodded , loving him more than ever at that moment . |
| 12 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 13 | THE SHADOW of the Maktoums looms larger than ever over British racing after confirmation yesterday that Robert Sangster is to sell Manton , his multi-million pound training establishment in Wiltshire . |
| 14 | ‘ The location should be well-placed with respect to the population , rather than off in deep countryside . |
| 15 | McAlpine says : ‘ The whole sector — commercial building , industrial building and civil engineering — is being hit worse now than probably at any time during this recession . ’ |
| 16 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
| 17 | To give you more room to relax , it is wider than before with greater leg room . |
| 18 | Anderson , for instance , suggests that the strong family cohesion amongst some groups in rural areas was maintained by migrants into Lancashire cotton plants like Preston though largely for fairly calculative reasons rather than out of emotional loyalty to kin . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you from a military family ? ’ the Doctor asked , more to break the embarrassing silence than out of genuine interest . |
| 20 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 21 | In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation . |
| 22 | They must also ensure that educational adaptation corresponds to local circumstances rather than simply to national value systems which may have no positive role in helping people to develop their own resources . |
| 23 | Work of this kind demonstrated the significance of the Bronze and Iron Ages in reducing the forest cover of the British landscape particularly in upland Britain , where blanket peat growth may have been influenced by deforestation rather than simply by climatic change ( Simmons , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 25 | And it assures us than even with minimal faith , God 's purposes will be accomplished beyond all that we can believe . |
| 26 | The section on development projects included more detailed provisions than previously on technical co-operation , implementation procedures , monitoring and evaluation of projects , and the allocation of responsibility for management and execution of projects . |