Example sentences of "than [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 2 | They recognise what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing an ability to learn , which is the primary feature of a written or oral examination . |
| 3 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 4 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 5 | In recent years , moreover , the incidence of backbench revolts among government supporters has increased and the House of Lords has more than once demonstrated an inclination to go its own way . |
| 6 | This is far more damaging to the wild population than simply kidnapping an infant . |
| 7 | This is true in more ways than simply obtaining an Equity card . |
| 8 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |