Example sentences of "is [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 2 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 3 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 4 | Thus the proportion of all men belonging to occupational pension schemes is more than double that of women . |
| 5 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 6 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 7 | Eisner and Nowicki suggest that the occasional missed meal is more than adequately compensated for by the preservation of the web . |
| 8 | Whether this lopsided record and Stewart 's stewardship is more than just coincidental will be a matter for the Test and County Cricket Board to discuss when his contract comes up again next April . |
| 9 | Vinegar is more than just a table condiment to sprinkle over chips . |
| 10 | But the firm is more than just a money-maker ; it is the consummate all-rounder . |
| 11 | It is more than just goodwill that rests on the outcome . |
| 12 | The suburban southern venue for the selection board is more than just convenient ( a sortie into Lancashire was abandoned after the second session ) , it is a metaphor for the new style of the party . |
| 13 | Pearson 's agent comments : ‘ Pugwash is more than just the signature tune , and it 's not just the accordion . |
| 14 | But Voyager is more than just a pretty face ; one would expect no less from Volker Schlondorff . |
| 15 | But the countryside is more than just a pretty picture . |
| 16 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 17 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 18 | AROMATHERAPY is more than just another alternative therapy . |
| 19 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 20 | This is more than just a case of increased differentiation in local voting behaviour . |
| 21 | Of course communicating is more than just telling someone something . |
| 22 | This disagreement between the different schools of thought is more than just a storm in an academic teacup . |
| 23 | But Les , who was preceded in the Alton spotlight by Odiham duo Acoustic Bikini , is more than just a humorist . |
| 24 | Hyundai claims the new 124bhp engine is more than just an enlarged version of the existing Lantra 's 1.6-litre unit . |
| 25 | And this is more than just drinkable , it is an enormous , fruit-packed wine , smelling sublimely of ripe blackcurrants . |
| 26 | Somerset is more than just pretty scenery |
| 27 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 28 | Again , I must add , this is more than just a demo , as it 's subtitled ‘ A Requiem ’ to honour a friend of Origo who is no longer amongst us . |
| 29 | But to the ragga audience Shabba is more than just an MC . |
| 30 | WORD IS out that Henry Rollins is more than just an ugly face . |