Example sentences of "than [indef pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love more than anything JTR 's ‘ fortunately or unfortunately ’ reference to travel improvements in the area . |
| 2 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 3 | A contemporary landscape , Les Usines de Rio Tinto à Estaque , though the subject is still quite recognizable , is markedly more abstract than anything Braque had painted before . |
| 4 | Obviously plenty of people find it more interesting than anything breakfast TV has to offer . |
| 5 | The widespread belief that Ross had declared the Interfor Report ‘ not credible ’ was , perhaps , of greater value to their case than anything Aviv might have sworn to . ) |
| 6 | The smell was terrible , worse than anything Maggie had ever known , and on this frosty morning steam came up as if from a dung heap . |
| 7 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Felstead , ’ said Pascoe with a note of surprise more genuine , he felt , than anything Dalziel could produce . |
| 9 | It was said softly , almost gently , yet the word itself was hard , the two sounds of which it was made stranger than anything Tuan Ti Fo had ever heard . |
| 10 | The food was good , fresh meat and bone , but though it was better than anything Creggan had had since he had been caught , nothing ever seemed to taste as good as the food he remembered from his homesite . |
| 11 | This tip does not apply if you are camping at Aviemore however , where imagining your surroundings in daylight is worse than anything Hell can come up with . |
| 12 | This was worse than anything Angelica had expected . |
| 13 | It made Bella shriek and wave her arms about and it set Joe drumming his fingers on the table with that quiet disapproval that was worse than anything Bella could do . |
| 14 | That would definitely panic him worse than anything Grant could say . |
| 15 | Moreover , by the 1780s each of the two departments of the ministry handling correspondence with French diplomats abroad included two or three men being trained for diplomatic work , though the training seems to have been more directly practical than anything Torcy had had in mind . |
| 16 | The success of the scheme was rapid and spectacular , borne along by the enthusiasm of organisers and experimental staff alike and by the conviction that here was a programme far more relevant and exciting than anything Kenya had had previously ( which it was ) . |