Example sentences of "than [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 5 | The monarch is , furthermore , more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 17 | I see the tree very much in the round and try to create depth rather than just a silhouette . |
| 18 | As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are . |
| 19 | One day , he hinted , he would insist she did , and for more than just a holiday . |
| 20 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 21 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 22 | Stanley William Hayter is broadly acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century printmaking , on three counts : his technical innovations , especially in intaglio colour printing ; the encouragement of artists from Miró to Pollock and beyond to treat printmaking as a means of original expression ( rather than just a way of reproducing images ) ; and a remarkable body of prints produced over six decades , which attest to his broad interests in mythology , the workings of the unconscious , and the new mathematics . |
| 23 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 24 | I had to show him I could be an international rather than just a squad player . |
| 25 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 26 | maybe even more than just a day . |
| 27 | This is more than just a case of increased differentiation in local voting behaviour . |
| 28 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 29 | More than just a vineyard ! |
| 30 | Martina is more than just a tennis player however . |