Example sentences of "than [pron] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle , essentially a man of the radio age , and Mitterrand , who prefers the pen to the mike , ’ determined more than anyone else the relationship between the state and television . |
| 2 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 3 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 4 | The latter was more than anything else a showcase for younger expressionist poets like Georg Heym . |
| 5 | In short , the intelligence of insects , like that of our species , seems to be more than anything else the intelligence of evolutionary necessity . |
| 6 | The century 's economic expansion reflected perhaps more than anything else the rapid growth and partial diffusion of wealth through the upper reaches of the Tudor and Stuart social pyramid . |
| 7 | The Rover 600 is the latest , newest model to come out od Cowley and it represents more than anything else the regeneration of the works . |
| 8 | However , during the early phase of the crisis the Israeli public feared more than anything else an Iraqi chemical attack on Israel , as threatened by Saddam in April [ see p. 37390 ] . |
| 9 | The case in fact that was put forward by the North Yorkshire County Council Highways and Traffic committee was in fact that the need as so clearly expressed by Mr is that it is the A fifty nine that needs the relief more than anything else an therefore the proposal is that the northern relief road be it an inner or an outer , be built first . |