Example sentences of "[verb] it be [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 2 | He did not know how much had been paid but believed it was less than £50m . |
| 3 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 4 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 5 | Because , whatever the tax rate ( assuming it is less than 100 per cent ) , the way to maximize after-tax profits is to maximize pre-tax profits . |
| 6 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 7 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 8 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 9 | Following the river , it is almost 1,000 miles from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum while as the crow flies it is less than 500 . |
| 10 | The horrendous blunder of thinking it was more than that filled hir with shame . |
| 11 | When I bought something I 'd say it was less than it really was . |