Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 2 | ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . ) |
| 3 | She had n't envied those girls until now ; she stole a look at Roman and admitted to herself that she was more than attracted to him . |
| 4 | The belief is unjustified because nothing that you can point to suggests that you are rather than are not a brain in a vat . |
| 5 | • can satisfy a medical examination board that you are more than 14 per cent disabled by RSI . |
| 6 | It is that there is no community to appeal to ; for the phenomenon itself is the evidence that there is more than one community , or a divided community . |
| 7 | Learning that there is more than one solution to things is a valuable lesson . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard says the only thing that makes Unix questionable at all is that there is more than one version . |
| 9 | They reject apparent synonyms within a language until they discover that there is more than one level of categorization to which labels can be applied . |
| 10 | Yet investigations of the writing process suggest that there is more than one way to salvation and that what suits one pupil may well hinder another — the protracted act of discovery and experiment that Thomas was engaged in with his piece of wood writings may well be a complete turn-off for another child . |
| 11 | If it were decided to impose a breakeven constraint , and assuming that there is more than one product price involved , the target may be achieved in many ways . |
| 12 | I also want to argue in this chapter , however , that there is more than one view of physics ( in particular ) and science ( in general ) , and that there are some within the discipline who do not accept the dominant perspective of the subject , but put forward powerful alternative views . |
| 13 | And if so , then , given that such statements are sometimes true , it necessarily follows that there is more than one entity in the world . |
| 14 | In the Second Declaration of Havana , issued on 4 February 1962 in response to the suspension of Cuba from the OAS , Castro reminded the Soviet Union that there is more than one interpretation of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 15 | You may also have noticed that there are more than four grey shades used . |
| 16 | One only has to consider the markets for restaurant meals , motor cars and clothes to realize that there are more than two successful cost-quality mixes available in a number of industries . |
| 17 | It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals . |
| 18 | Estimates of total enrolment vary , but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800 . |
| 19 | He estimated that there were more than 300 cases . |
| 20 | A survey carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys between 1985 and 1988 estimated that there were more than 6 million adults in Britain suffering from one or more disability . |
| 21 | Ruby Dobby 's earrings became energetic as she insisted that there were more than five senses to be employed in any search for the truth . |
| 22 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 23 | Is the Minister aware that there were more than 17,000 people employed in the Scottish coal industry in 1984 , but by 1989 that figure had fallen to 3,480 and it will be even smaller now ? |
| 24 | In January 1990 the international human rights organization , Amnesty International , issued a report which alleged that there were more than 800 political prisoners in South Korea and which claimed that the government had " deliberately disregarded " constitutional guarantees and other reforms introduced in 1987-88 designed to protect detainees from mistreatment or torture . |
| 25 | The ANC had claimed that there were more than 3,000 political prisoners and some 40,000 dissidents in exile . |
| 26 | The Middle East Economic Digest of April 26 reported that there were more than 1,000,000 Iraqi refugees in Iran , of whom 50,000 were Shias from southern Iraq , and the remainder Kurds . |
| 27 | On Feb. 27 , 1991 , Valentin Kuptsov , a secretary of the CPSU central committee , told a news conference that there were more than 500 political parties in the USSR , including 20 with a nationwide membership . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but Edwin told me once that there was less than a dozen pictures altogether . |
| 29 | Fraser 's fork took several forms , as I say : or one might prefer to say that there was more than one fork to reckon with . |
| 30 | We must again remind ourselves that there was more than one episode of dinosaur extinction when food and dietary factors have had equal relevance , although each succeeding ( and changed ) species seemed to be better fitted to an ecologically evolved environment . |