Example sentences of "[adj] than that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In support of one of these views , James Michie ( 1964 : 9 ) writes in his translator 's preface " It is better that Horace should be " done down " into English than that he should be undone by the gradual disappearance of Latin from our culture " . |
| 2 | The concentration of platelet activating factor in this study ( 1.2 pg/h ) is much lower than that we had previously found in patients suffering from oesophagitis ( 28 pg/h ) , erosive gastritis ( 25 pg/h ) , and duodenal ulcer ( 5 pg/h ) . |
| 3 | If it 's even lower than that it 's local and it 's area |
| 4 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 5 | It would seem that , for a holiday to be enjoyed , it must have a reason more compelling than that it shall simply fill a gap , or satisfy some politically motivated demand . |
| 6 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 7 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 8 | But the electrophysiological examples I have described go some way to countering Wittgenstein 's negative assertion : ‘ No supposition seems to me more natural than that there is no process in the brain correlated with associating or with thinking ; so that it would be impossible to read off thought-processes from brain-processes ’ ( Zettel , paragraph 608 , Anscombe 's translation , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | What more natural than that he should gravitate towards the Communist Party ? |
| 10 | What was more natural than that he should come to see his cousin at his place of work ? |
| 11 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 12 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 13 | And there was nothing surer than that he was going to need her when Guido finally caught up with him ! |
| 14 | Replace cookers , instal new deep freeze units , streamline all the worksurfaces , here you are , you wo n't get it done any cheaper than that I can promise you . |
| 15 | it would n't be any thicker than that I do n't suppose , but I mean I would n't know |
| 16 | After all , in the war Barry would have been told that he was fighting to uphold the rights of small nations , so what could be more logical than that he should now fight for the rights of his own country , Ireland , a small nation if ever there was one ! |
| 17 | More than that we can not tell you at the moment , but we will , of course , give you a full ( p ) review as soon as it is possible . |
| 18 | They ca n't ask for more than that we have reviewed and reformed our procedures . ’ |
| 19 | Whereas that was one group that had the same number in fact more than that we had ninety people there . |
| 20 | And when we introduce anything more than that we are actually setting up obstacles to people becoming Christians . |
| 21 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 22 | But more than that they imply a specific theory about the genesis of social violence . |
| 23 | His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute . |
| 24 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 25 | More than that you ca n't ask of a techno record . |
| 26 | It means little more than that you can compute the direction and velocity of movement of an object independently of its colour or its depth . |
| 27 | I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you . |
| 28 | All of us desire nothing more than that you should take hold of your life again … more freely exercise your will . |
| 29 | More than that I believe that what is right needs to be said . |
| 30 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |