Example sentences of "than [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 2 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 4 | ‘ She thought she would get more for her money and she felt it was a more friendly environment than perhaps Liverpool or somewhere like that . ’ |
| 5 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 6 | Kenya 's Other Mountains — There 's much more than just Mount Kenya , as David Else discovers |
| 7 | Dealer Karsten Greve notes that for foreigners interested in contemporary art the Rheinland now means more than just Cologne : ‘ In Bonn , there are the new Bundeskunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bonn ; there is the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum in Krefelt , the Hollein-designed Museum Abteiberg in Mönchen-Gladbach , the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg , the Museum Folkwang in Essen , the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and the Von-der-Heydt Museum in Wuppertal ’ . |
| 8 | Problems are likely to occur if there are several " actors " in the story — if , that is , the story is about Tom , Dick and Harry , rather than just William , for then simple pronominalisation is not always possible without ambiguity . |
| 9 | Sir , Apart from the illogicality ( with all due respect to Brough Girling , 8th January ) of Jennings , Tin Tin or Milly Molly Mandy , actually growing up , can one imagine anything more unlikely than Just William becoming anything as prattish as a Tory minister or an estate agent ? |
| 10 | There are more in those records than just Von Braun and his few . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ A key point was the fact that other people are saying that GA Life is good at administration , rather than just GA saying it . ’ |
| 12 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 13 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 14 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 15 | More than once Miller emphasised that roses , being natives of northern countries or from the cold mountains of warmer ones , relish their freedom . |
| 16 | Claudia hardly saw Dana ; she left in the morning before her twin left her room , though more than once Claudia heard her moving about and she knew Dana was deliberately waiting until she left the flat before appearing to drink the coffee left ready for her . |
| 17 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 18 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 19 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 20 | Now more than ever England is a reluctantly cosmopolitan society , and it comes easy in England to subordinate the different experiences of sexes and nationalities to a single archetype . |
| 21 | With British women travelling more than ever Clairol have developed a new range of mobile curling appliances . |
| 22 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 23 | As such , policyholders might ask — why is there not an independent actuarial committee given that Scottish Equitable is a far larger company than both FS Assurance and Scottish Mutual put together ? |
| 24 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 25 | It was a darker and meaner crime than even Joyce 's account suggested . |
| 26 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
| 27 | And Dyson knew from the depth of humility and reverence in his inflection that he was getting a larger fee than even Lord Boddy . |
| 28 | Its qualifications for taming England supporters look from this distance more compelling than even Sardinia 's . |
| 29 | So deep was the contrast between Gunnell and her rivals that her victory seemed a more significant moment than even Linford Christie 's unblinking run to 100m gold . |
| 30 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |