Example sentences of "more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's a timid design , a commercial product , but no more than that . ’ |
| 32 | But if a customer wanted more than that , the design could be adapted . ’ |
| 33 | It had seemed , the great choral works excepted , mere mathematics , endless , tedious variations on simple themes , clever , of course , but no more than that . |
| 34 | ‘ They lost more than that , 100,000 , more like . |
| 35 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 36 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 37 | The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled , but no more than that . |
| 38 | The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled , but no more than that . |
| 39 | Even Stockport indie gerbils A Witness could boast more than that , |
| 40 | Since last summer , revenues from , eg , M&A , property , issues of securities , and much corporate work have fallen by more than that . |
| 41 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 42 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 43 | A film of his most recent novel , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , conveys little more than that he a master of the erotic situation . |
| 44 | Those are valuable qualities , but as Enoch Powell suggested a leader needs more than that . |
| 45 | Is not worship more than that ? |
| 46 | He viewed Jesus as one who revealed God , but who was only a human being and no more than that . |
| 47 | We were ‘ just good friends ’ , however much I wished we could be more than that . |
| 48 | Not only is he possibly the best friend I have , man friend , but ever since I ‘ came out ’ , he 's wanted to be rather more than that . ’ |
| 49 | A few activists might have seen it as more than that , but that was never the view of the General Council . |
| 50 | More than that , it had served to prove yet again that Sweetheart was quite justified in calling him worthless and good-for-nothing . |
| 51 | More than that , Charlemagne believed in God 's sanctions and there is every reason to think that he was not at all alone in this attitude . |
| 52 | My family think I should only eat at meal times , and only in small quantities , but I need more than that — my stomach rumbles all the time between meals . |
| 53 | It looks like she 's going to last for a lot more than that . ’ |
| 54 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |
| 55 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 56 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 57 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 58 | They have a good base salary but make more than that out of bonuses , ’ the source said . |
| 59 | Mr Major would have a fighting chance ( though not much more than that ) of remaining in Downing Street . |
| 60 | Jamaicans felt it was much more than that . |