Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 2 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 3 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | Our costs have risen far more than the increases we have put forward as a result of the devaluation . ’ |
| 5 | Bran cereals and muesli are rather more weighty , so here people tend to serve out more than an ounce just so that it looks sufficient . |
| 6 | Although we must not forget the sizeable minority who are caught in a poverty trap , during recent years wages and salaries have risen overall more than the cost of living , and educational opportunities have widened . |
| 7 | As it is , women hold barely more than a quarter of all managerial and administrative posts , yet make up nearly half the workforce . |
| 8 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 9 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 10 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 11 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 12 | However , recruitment companies should provide far more than an emergency relief service and should be able to deal with all problematical staff-finding jobs in a diplomatic and professional manner . |
| 13 | That invariably means that the employer , the Scottish Transport Group and , through the Scottish Transport Group , Her Majesty 's Government ends up paying substantially more than the employees . |
| 14 | The small snag is that it costs considerably more than the purchase price to buy a licence to use them and a licence is required for each computer . |
| 15 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 16 | When they do so , the refinancing will cost far more than the warrant yields originally suggested — around 8–10% , at current interest rates , rather than the 3–5% or less on the warrants . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Kingfisher has prospered , embracing far more than the relics of the British end of Frank Winfield Woolworth 's creation . |
| 18 | It was a quick route to popularity and she was invited out more than the others . |
| 19 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 20 | Whether the idea survives as more than a fad remains to be seen . |
| 21 | The initial , almost instantaneous , elongation produced by the application of the tensile stress is inversely proportional to the rigidity or modulus of the material , i.e. an elastomer with a low modulus stretches considerably more than a material in the glassy state with a high modulus . |
| 22 | The nurse suffers infinitely more than the patient . |
| 23 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 24 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 25 | To the primary teacher " teaching resources " mean far more than the school textbook . |
| 26 | As we have seen , this involves far more than the language being used ; it involves pre-existent knowledge of the world . |
| 27 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 28 | I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch . |
| 29 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 30 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |