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Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The ventral arm plates are much wider than long with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight distal edge rounded at the corners and indented midradially .
2	The fact that central government was now beginning to regard Siberia as an integral part of Russia as a whole , rather than merely as a colonial appendage , was marked by the abolition in 1763 of the Siberian Department ( Sibirskii prikaz ) , the central state bureau which had , with a brief interruption under Peter the Great , been directly responsible for the governance and administration of the territory since 1637 .
3	Secondly , there is ‘ a need to be more giving ’ of oneself than normally in a psychotherapeutic or counselling relationship .
4	If PF1/4 is pressed more than once during a single LIFESPAN log on session , all the requests will be directed to one copy of FORM.LST , which can then be printed after you have returned to VMS .
5	Mr Babangida 's regime has concentrated power more than ever in a central executive .
6	The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans .
7	But he was there waiting and looked more handsome than ever in a grey suit with a white shirt .
8	There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory .
9	Thus , alcohol and other mood altering substances come to be seen in reality as mood-altering chemicals rather than solely as a perceived solution to problems .
10	said there had probably never been a better time than now for a private company or public body to carry out a property audit .
11	The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) .