Example sentences of "than [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This second relationship arose from an ingenious cover-up to a less than wholly honest piece of political self-enrichment . |
| 2 | But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission . |
| 3 | Many low income families may still face enforcement action through private bailiffs at the door , rather than less stringent repayment methods . |
| 4 | Judicial views on this matter are likely to vary from judge to judge and from time to time : some judges favour more rather than less judicial review ; others less rather than more . |
| 5 | Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways ? |
| 6 | The strong argument in favour of classifying such offences as attempted rape rather than merely indecent assault has now been recognized by the Law Commission 's draft Criminal Code , and the Court of Appeal has recently found its way to this conclusion by ‘ interpreting ’ the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 . |
| 7 | A multilingual community requires a more sophisticated language policy than merely enlarged provision for French . |
| 8 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 9 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 10 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 11 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 12 | Surface expression rather than only cytoplasmic expression of the TCR- β chain may be essential for transduction of the signal for the induction of CD4 and CD8 and/or proliferation of DP cells . |
| 13 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 14 | He said it would be the first of a series of ventures which Gooding was discussing with Japanese companies , aimed at bringing research and technology to Britain rather than just final assembly of goods . |
| 15 | That scenario can be distinguished from another which may nevertheless overlap and converge with it : the necessary identifications of male bonding — ‘ I desire to be like you ’ — produce an intensity of admiration some of which just can not help but transform into deviant desire for , rather than just honourable imitation of , ‘ man 's ’ most significant other ( i.e. man ) . |
| 16 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 17 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 18 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 19 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 20 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 21 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 22 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 23 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 24 | For all that , it is wise to know a little more about search than just that method , so here are a few relatively elaborate algorithms which are also sometimes useful . |
| 25 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 26 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 27 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 28 | It 's erm , as you can see , it 's divisional guidelines for authorising costing needs to be and referred to under related documents rather than just divisional policy . |
| 29 | This recognition by the Prince 's Trust gave me more than just financial help . |
| 30 | ‘ We must think in terms of corporate reporting rather than just financial statement , ’ said the Governor . |