Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] be [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | LVMH is the largest champagne company in the world with consumption of Moët et Chandon being more than double that of its nearest competitor . |
| 2 | Twenty-four hours of Monsieur Poincare was more than enough for him . |
| 3 | To Abie Klugman , Celtic Crescent was more than just board and lodgings . |
| 4 | Nigel Mansell was less than complimentary about Alain Prost during a 20-minute documentary broadcast nationwide in Australia . |
| 5 | Reading Jane Austen was more than an affectation : it was a life-preserver . |
| 6 | But Baroness Thatcher was less than talkative away from the podium … |
| 7 | There is evidence on the contrary that Pope John was less than happy about certain schemata . |
| 8 | Pauline Kael was less than flattering : ‘ Why does he go through the picture with his mouth open , like some adenoidal chinless wonder ? |
| 9 | But Lady Campbell was less than happy . |
| 10 | The Montrose interest settled the question in this way through political pressure on the two candidates , for John Stirling was less than enthusiastic about sharing his responsibilities with Craigannet , and it was obviously hazardous to be joined in responsibility for accounting for public money with a colleague of whom the Stirling family had ‘ no good character ’ . |
| 11 | Frau Fegel was less than enthusiastic . |
| 12 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 13 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 14 | Though Charles Lamb had by now returned to London — envying his forgotten greatcoat for ‘ lingering so cunningly behind ’ at Lime Street — the sudden appearance of John Thelwall was more than compensation . |