Example sentences of "more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers can set aside more than minimum requirement ( this takes in farmers on previous five-year scheme ) . |
| 2 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 3 | Moreover , in these models , if the firms have different and non-constant marginal costs , a further source of inefficiency is that total market output will be produced at more than minimum total cost — the marginal costs of firms are not equalized at the equilibrium . |
| 4 | More than critical accounts of class or ‘ race ’ , feminism is currently an important vehicle for bringing into psychology the social questions which the discipline skates over . |
| 5 | But as workers were busily removing the offending logo from the congress hall yesterday , there were many signs that the change this time would be more than superficial . |
| 6 | Historical incidents were no more than superficial disturbances of the established order or recurring events of unchanging significance . |
| 7 | I had convinced myself that the massage had been no more than superficial . |
| 8 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Neither was there evidence of anything more than superficial surface treatment . |
| 10 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 11 | While examination of these features reveals that the resemblance is no more than superficial there is a need to investigate the form and arrangement of both the hard skeletal structure and the soft tissues such as the tentacle and water vascular system associated with the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 12 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 13 | A real page-turner , with a more than satisfying conclusion . |
| 14 | More than that , it was ‘ one of the most important classical art forgeries ever discovered ’ . |
| 15 | More than that ? |
| 16 | But these facilities are much more than that . |
| 17 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Royston 's play attempts ( and fails ) to do rather more than that . |
| 20 | The obvious answer is to fuse national insurance with income tax , but this would offend against the notion ( it is really no more than that ) that the national insurance system is ‘ contributory ’ . |
| 21 | But more than that , all the goods , and especially the innumerable varieties of herring , have gone upmarket . |
| 22 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 23 | But the man 's melon-sized grin as he scampered into the sodden winner 's enclosure to welcome Rambo 's Hall indicated more than that . |
| 24 | More than that , they help constitute it . |
| 25 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 26 | I just wanted something more than that . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't know any more than that , ’ Maggie protested to Rose after he had gone . |
| 28 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 29 | They do n't know English but it is more than that . |
| 30 | However hard we work we can never make more than that — and unless we make more we do n't get any bonus . |