Example sentences of "[adv] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of getting into the small shaky enclosure of plaited metal strips which was the lift was suddenly more than he could contemplate . |
| 2 | And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task . |
| 3 | This is consistent with the findings which indicate that young people tend to adjust relatively easily to working life and that the less academic tend to do so more than others . |
| 4 | Some families who need the certainty of legal adoption are none the less more than willing to allow their child to continue contact with members of the birth family . |
| 5 | It does not mean greatly more than it says , as a good many philosophers have seemed to think , and as surveys of their theories indicate . |
| 6 | Causation and other nomicity consists in no less than , and not greatly more than , a web of connections between things or events , at bottom individual properties . |
| 7 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 8 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 9 | Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again . |
| 10 | But these facilities are much more than that . |
| 11 | In practice , whatever the solution adopted there is always an uncomfortable shifting of gears in the movement from one of these perspectives to the other : nor does the assertion of this or that ‘ homology ’ between style and narrative do much more than to pronounce resolved in advance the dilemma for which it was supposed to provide a working answer . |
| 12 | It is a masterpiece of literary criticism , precisely by being much more than that ; under its surface is the furious rejection by Tate , now consciously an alienated Southerner and impenitent Confederate , of the scientific humanism of Yankee America . |
| 13 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 14 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 15 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Even for those firms that are managing to wash their faces , the return on the capital employed in the markets , itself much more than before Big Bang , is puny . |
| 17 | Gina got nastier and nastier when she did n't have money ; she hit him much more than before . |
| 18 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 19 | She was feeling her loss much more than she revealed ; she was schooled in hiding her emotions . |
| 20 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 21 | Lawful strikes may threaten the fabric of a society much more than many unlawful acts . |
| 22 | Perhaps it 's not right to say it , but I loved my grandma much more than I loved my mother … |
| 23 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 24 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 25 | He had enjoyed the picnic much more than he had thought possible . |
| 26 | Research commissioned by the NOERC from the Henley Centre suggests that , in the absence of such a strategy , the Channel tunnel will benefit southern companies much more than northern ones . |
| 27 | As the child grows , leg length increases in relation to full body height much more than other body parts , so the head becomes proportionally smaller . |
| 28 | As the child grows , leg length increases in relation to full body height much more than other body parts , so the head becomes proportionally smaller . |
| 29 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 30 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |