Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] more [subord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 2 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 3 | All too often , the antecedents of revolution are separated by more than a human lifespan from their fruition . |
| 4 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 5 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 6 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 7 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 8 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 9 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 10 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 11 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 12 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 13 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 14 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 15 | Consent of the shareholders by ordinary resolution is required , unless the articles permit the board to sanction payments without shareholder approval , or provide that a resolution passed by more than a simple majority of shareholders must be obtained . |
| 16 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 17 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 18 | Perhaps Mr Heseltine 's sudden interest in television is motivated by more than a simple desire to boost British exports . |
| 19 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |