Example sentences of "than an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average … and it 's not half way through the month yet . |
| 2 | EVERY TIME more than an inch of snow falls on London , the questions are the same . |
| 3 | More than an inch of rain fell in the early hours at Aberporth in Cardigan Bay , six miles from the River Teifi estuary where a helicopter rescue was mounted yesterday after caravans were deluged by a flash flood . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't want to marry me — ’ his hot mouth was less than an inch above her face as she stared resolutely at his dark red silk tie ‘ — but there 's something else you do want to do with me . ’ |
| 5 | Just as Pearce 's wild and screaming face slammed against the glass on the other side , less than an inch from Cardiff ‘ s own . |
| 6 | The wound of entry was small and I 'd say the gun was held at a little more than an inch from the chap 's neck . ’ |
| 7 | Championship at Hillside , he holed his final putt of less than an inch in snooker-fashion with the grip-end of his putter . |
| 8 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 9 | Than an order of words , the conscious occupation |
| 10 | The telescope covers energies from 20MeV to over 20GeV with more than an order of magnitude greater sensitivity than the SAS-2 or COS-B instruments , as well as improved resolution in energy , angle and timing measurements . |
| 11 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 12 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 13 | I have to say that I can not at present conceive of any circumstances in which this would be other than an abuse of power as directly or indirectly requiring the practitioner to act contrary to the fundamental duty which he owes to his patient . |
| 14 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 15 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 16 | After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986 , Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , in which he expressed regret for having been seen as " no more than an appendage to Martin " . |
| 17 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 18 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 19 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal has held that , in the context of criminal proceedings , the Code is sufficiently similar to legislation that its construction is an issue of law and therefore for the judge rather than an issue of fact to be determined by the jury . |
| 21 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 22 | In a work of art this is a powerful coup because it compels us to think about why we know this woman must be black , and as an act of protest it is far richer and more powerful than an instruction in how to feel . |
| 23 | But the carefully prepared general rise in European interest rates immediately prompted concern that it represented German worries about domestic inflation and the ability of the Bundesbank to persuade other countries to follow its policy , rather than an expression of the determination of the Group of Seven , the leading industrial nations , to control the dollar . |
| 24 | But the response at first was muted , for the Acts seem to have been ad hoc responses to a perceived crisis rather than an expression of a coherent programme . |
| 25 | He told George Seferis that , in his prose writings , the need for honesty and clarity entailed the kind of elaborate elucidation which audiences found dull ; but this was now the manner that Eliot adopted , and it is possible to see the equivocations and hesitations of his later prose work as aspects of what was essentially a Socratic method of inquiry rather than an expression of caution or indecision . |
| 26 | A defeat on a specific issue does not lead to the resignation of a government ; it is no more than an expression of dissatisfaction designed to force the Cabinet to change its policy . |
| 27 | Until last month this was little more than an expression of good intentions . |
| 28 | A conviction — or , for that matter , an acquittal — by a jury is no more than an expression of opinion by at least ten out of twelve people about the defendant 's guilt . |
| 29 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |
| 30 | However , if the total effect of this and other stress effects is to exaggerate the effect of stress then this could be less a problem than an advantage in detecting stress early , although not an exact measurement . |