Example sentences of "[ex0] is [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 2 | Hierarchies are further sub-classified by the relations which structure them ; there is thus more than one kind of branching hierarchy , and more than one kind of non-branching hierarchy . |
| 3 | There is normally more than one way of writing about a particular historical subject or period . |
| 4 | The road through the forest twists and turns like a corkscrew , there is n't more than 100 yards of straight in about 40 miles , and it 's narrow and gravel . |
| 5 | How sites and finds come to be buried depends on a number of factors , and there is often more than one reason why they are now beneath the ground . |
| 6 | Because there is often more than one casualty involved in an accident , it is estimated that this casualty target can be achieved by reducing the number of accidents by about 50 . |
| 7 | Due to the relatively small number of tags and the frequency with which some of these tags are found ( e.g. over 20% of the words in the lexicon are usually found behaving as common nouns ) there is often more than one word given the top rank in any position . |
| 8 | But there is always more than one scale to use over any given chord ; it 's up to you to decide which scale sound you like . |
| 9 | You could take home just a few to cut open and look for the young larva or larvae , as in some types of gall there is always more than one larva , each in its own separate section . |
| 10 | Members of the jury , it is clear that there is more here than meets the eye and I call on you to reach the only verdict that matches the evidence ; |
| 11 | There is now more than one charge code using the same storage directory . |
| 12 | There is then more than one way of returning to the root , so that some elements of the structure can be missed in a search by the choice of the route taken . |
| 13 | ‘ And we 're delighted to report that there is still more than £1,200 due to come in . ’ |
| 14 | There is sometimes more than one reason for an error , though : always find out if an error is a real mistake that needs your attention , or simply a slip of the pen that the writer would correct on re-reading . |
| 15 | There is less here than meets the eye . |
| 16 | There is actually more than enough land already available to within the main urban area to provide the types of facilities that Mr Bishop was saying were not currently available . |