Example sentences of "with [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show , organised by Thames Valley Police , has all the elements of a Christmas pantomime with larger than life characters and lots of audience participation . |
| 2 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 3 | As the figure shows , deliveries from the Advocates ' Library ( which are largely outwith the control of the National Library ) tended to take longer even than deliveries of rare or early material , with more than half ( 51% ) of all timed deliveries taking longer than 35 minutes , and with only 16% — around one in five — taking twenty minutes or less . |
| 4 | The judges were also impressed by a striking cover portraying a woman and her daughter with the logo ‘ Fighting cancer with more than medicine ’ . |
| 5 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 6 | Yet they were bright with more than lust , brighter with other kinds of desire . |
| 7 | His coming meant that the radio station could deal with more than news bulletins and official talks . |
| 8 | The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts . |
| 9 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 10 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 11 | Deduction at source was hardly possible with other than government employees , nor on the recipients of rents and interest , but Addington 's division of his tax into five schedules , A to E , was not only a major step in the direction of obtaining accurate assessments but remained the basis of income taxation into our own time . |
| 12 | Frankly , it is n't worth the memory space it takes up , as improvements with other than database programs are imperceptible , and access with database files are n't speeded up very noticeably . |