Example sentences of "be [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 2 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 3 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 4 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 5 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 6 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 7 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 8 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 9 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 10 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 11 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 12 | ‘ We are less than a third of the way through the season . |
| 13 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 14 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 15 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 16 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 17 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 18 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 19 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 20 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 21 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 22 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 23 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 25 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 26 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 27 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 28 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 29 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 30 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |