Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps your first mistake was to think that a shop could give you totally impartial advice — their prime concern was probably to make sure you actually made a purchase and from them rather than elsewhere . |
| 2 | The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures . |
| 3 | to enable us to cope we have find space for ourselves , do something , purely for ourselves rather than always be thinking about our children , thinking about the home thinking about the family , we 're as important and I think that 's what people must realize to begin with . |
| 4 | Truth was , I more than once looked back over my shoulder to see if anything was following me . |
| 5 | There go the family jewels , thought Agger to himself more than once . |
| 6 | In earlier periods , ‘ foreign devils ’ brought with them more than just strange clothes and hairstyles but social and political doctrines as well . |
| 7 | Interdependence makes the point that the increasing linkages among national economies have made them more than ever sensitive and vulnerable to events in other countries . |
| 8 | And of those that do , few will try them more than once or twice . |
| 9 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |
| 10 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 11 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 12 | ‘ But I like to watch them more than once . ’ |
| 13 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 14 | The screams on them more than enough . |
| 15 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 16 | I catch a bit of radio while I 'm changing cassettes just north of Perth and hear something called I 'll Sleep When I 'm Dead by Bon Jovi which is n't a patch on Uncle Warren 's song of the same name and makes me more than reasonably annoyed . |
| 17 | This recognition by the Prince 's Trust gave me more than just financial help . |
| 18 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 19 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 20 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |
| 22 | Genetic differences may mean that although we eat the same diet , the level of cholesterol in your blood may be , say , 200 mg/100 ml ( 5–17 mmol/litre ) while mine is 300 mg/mI ( 7–76 mmol/l ) , giving me more than twice your risk of a heart attack . |
| 23 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 24 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 25 | The crisis of the 1970s turned out to be a crisis of the model itself rather than just another conjunctural swing within its confines . |
| 26 | There are already signs that DVI is being seen as a delivery medium in itself rather than just a process . |
| 27 | And we would pay you better than well . ’ |
| 28 | It 's just hitting you harder than most because it 's taken you longer than the rest of us to discover the joys and the agonies of falling in love . |
| 29 | Another senior police officer who more than once captured the headlines , James Anderton , Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , decrying ‘ the rot that has now taken a firm hold in the fabric of our society ’ , was so moved as to describe crime as Britain 's ‘ Top Growth Industry ’ . |
| 30 | If you 're out of the Ritz bracket , Hazlitt 's is one London hotel which gives you more than just bed and bath for a night at reasonable rates . |