Example sentences of "than [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |
| 2 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 3 | Because of the connection with prostitutes , pornography means more than just the graphic depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity . |
| 4 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 5 | Now would they normally get their er a jockey to gallop the horse rather than just the stable boy ? |
| 6 | This has had a much more drastic effect on the reservoir quality of the rocks than vadose compaction or early cementation , as it affected the whole of the Hauptdolomit rather than just the upper portion ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 7 | Well something other than just to talk about other than just the normal run of road things . |
| 8 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 9 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 10 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 11 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 12 | Groningen effect on the Deep Laterolog measurement had been suspected , therefore priority was given to wells with more resistivity devices than just the Dual Laterolog/Micro-Spherically Focused Log . |
| 13 | Was there more to it , then , than just the plain fact that her mother was still alive ? |
| 14 | In the case of local politics , should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy ? |
| 15 | There is more to the Premier Division , of course , than just the mathematical outcome of the championship . |
| 16 | And you 're there for quali qualified rather than just the licensed trade would that be ? |
| 17 | that the load is more than just the initial action of my division |
| 18 | Each case must be examined on its own facts , examining the function rather than just the formal categorisation of the requesting authority . |
| 19 | So you are very unlikely to be able to tell your story ( and , once again , telling a story is what you are doing fundamentally ) without abandoning more than once the angel-on-the-shoulder viewpoint of whatever chief characters you have chosen . |
| 20 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |
| 21 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 22 | In ( quite accurately ) evoking the hoary old spirit of punk , it helps that The White Horse is smaller and more cramped than ever the original Marquee was ; that the stage is only centimetres off the floor and resembles a cloakroom , as bags and coats are dumped onstage ; that there are mates and friends standing virtually onstage and the whole place is a hot , airless , shambolic morass of so-called Huggy nationalists . |
| 23 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 24 | In Drenthe , feeling more than ever the despised outcast , he found consolation in a human resting place . |
| 25 | By 2031 the average number of homes passed on each year , excluding bequests to spouses , could be 343,000 — more than double the current average ( see chart ) . |
| 26 | Last year , 45 per cent of recorded crime was cleared up — more than double the average rate in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | From the helicopter of Wiltshire Police a stolen Porsche Carrera was filmed travelling along the M4 at speeds more than double the legal limit . |
| 28 | Grim as events might seem , Britain could not contemplate a ‘ massive new immigration commitment ’ which could ‘ more than double the ethnic minority population of the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 29 | A second runway would more than double the present number of take-offs and landings . |
| 30 | Recurrent spending for 1990/91 was targeted at TSh160,000 million , a 35 per cent rise ( although inflation stood at 30 per cent for 1989 ) ; development spending , at TSh46,000 million was more than double the previous year 's level of TSh22,000 million . |