Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some sense this is no more than a public relations exercise , albeit a difficult one . |
| 2 | But the suspicion is that this was little more than a public relations exercise . |
| 3 | For more than a century physiologists have remarked upon the similarity between a walking human and an inverted pendulum . |
| 4 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 5 | Buildings in good condition in villages or forming part of a farm complex should be much cheaper to convert than a ruin miles from the nearest mains water and electricity — although even these sell . |
| 6 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 7 | But no sooner have they dematerialised than an explosion rocks the ship … |