Example sentences of "more than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than that , it was ‘ one of the most important classical art forgeries ever discovered ’ . |
| 2 | More than that ? |
| 3 | But these facilities are much more than that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Royston 's play attempts ( and fails ) to do rather more than that . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | But more than that , all the goods , and especially the innumerable varieties of herring , have gone upmarket . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than that , they help constitute it . |
| 12 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 13 | I just wanted something more than that . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't know any more than that , ’ Maggie protested to Rose after he had gone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They do n't know English but it is more than that . |
| 17 | However hard we work we can never make more than that — and unless we make more we do n't get any bonus . |
| 18 | It 's a timid design , a commercial product , but no more than that . ’ |
| 19 | But if a customer wanted more than that , the design could be adapted . ’ |
| 20 | It had seemed , the great choral works excepted , mere mathematics , endless , tedious variations on simple themes , clever , of course , but no more than that . |
| 21 | ‘ They lost more than that , 100,000 , more like . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled , but no more than that . |
| 25 | The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled , but no more than that . |
| 26 | Even Stockport indie gerbils A Witness could boast more than that , |
| 27 | Since last summer , revenues from , eg , M&A , property , issues of securities , and much corporate work have fallen by more than that . |
| 28 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 29 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 30 | A film of his most recent novel , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , conveys little more than that he a master of the erotic situation . |