Example sentences of "than [adv] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as any one institution is responsible for this basic stage of child socialization — literally , making social — then that institution is more often than not in our society the nuclear family . |
| 2 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 3 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 4 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |
| 5 | Stiff and inelegant , she followed him , more anxious than ever in her life to please . |
| 6 | Perhaps now that the forests and other wilderness areas have nearly vanished , these carnivorous animals burn brighter than ever in our consciousness — solitary beacons of wild nature whose continued survival has come to represent the survival of wilderness itself . |
| 7 | And now he began to be more devout than ever in his prayers , more ardent in divine contemplations , more frequent in his vigils , more energetic in exhortations and in works worthy of imitation and more frequent in preaching ; thus becoming a pattern in word and deed of a holy life to all , Rich in the bowels of compassion , he relieved everyone who sought his assistance . |
| 8 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 9 | She thought that he looked nicer than ever in his evening dress , and sounded nicer now that he had dropped his brusque , cold manner with her again . |
| 10 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 11 | Feeling the cold more than ever in my nakedness , I had , reluctantly , dismantled a poor looking cloth-bound work titled A Victorian Psalter , scrunched up the pages and stuffed them into the spaces around my body . |
| 12 | Then I suggested that , when she felt ready to do so , she should try to carry out the exercise in reality rather than simply in her imagination . |
| 13 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 14 | And as for Mr Marr — did you ever see him more than twice in your life ? |
| 15 | He believed he looked ill bodily rather than mentally in his bed things . |