Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken .
2 But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention .
3 Erm I have to say that that these are largely my personal views of the member of the regional office , rather than obviously the Secretary of State at this stage in the proceedings .
4 My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening .
5 Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result .
6 For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions .
7 But we 're likely to make more money at it than perhaps the sweat shops do .
8 Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work .
9 Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement .
10 Oh me , I would of thought more and more people would fly rather rather than perhaps the business men are n't , looking over the old New Jersey , or New Walkie something like that , a veteran .
11 The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion .
12 The monarch is , furthermore , more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom .
13 Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole .
14 Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth .
15 They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel .
16 It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests .
17 Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ?
18 Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke .
19 This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) .
20 As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation .
21 But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id .
22 In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society .
23 The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration .
24 The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place .
25 Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets .
26 Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society .
27 Those arguing for more fundamental change , tackling the causes rather than merely the symptoms of social distress , utilize categories embracing wider sections of society , extending from the still limited concept of the ‘ bottom third ’ to wider notions of the ‘ public ’ and ‘ citizens ’ .
28 It is a Romantic version of modernism which is viewed as genuinely progressive and critical , rather than merely the means by which capitalism destroyed any tradition which might have opposed its hegemony .
29 However , the existence of a discretion in the judge to exclude legally admissible evidence , so as to secure the fairness of the trial , was recognised as extending further than merely the exclusion of evidence more prejudicial than probative .
30 One possibility is that this measure too responds , at least in part , to the reflectance , rather than merely the area .
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