Example sentences of "[verb] more than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of mental illness was advancing considerably at that time , and it probably contributed more than the legislative change to reducing both the use of compulsory procedures and the incidence of long stays in hospital . |
| 2 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 3 | We know you 've both been through the HMS Dolphin Submarine Escape Tower and that you 've done more than a fair bit of free diving . |
| 4 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 5 | As it happened , we never met more than a bracing Force 5 . |
| 6 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 7 | There were of course other institutions of central government , which can not be given more than a bare mention here . |
| 8 | He must be offered more than the bare minimum . |
| 9 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 10 | You never spared more than a passing thought for me . |
| 11 | For this reason , when we heat glass to a temperature well below its melting point the shearing stress is reduced more than the brittle fracture stress and thus we can bend and shape and blow hot ( but not necessarily very hot ) glass quite easily . |
| 12 | Jonsson , following a study of delinquent boys in relation to marital breakdown and subsequent contact between children and parents , concluded that the " psychological reconstruction phase following divorce probably meant more than the acute conflict during the divorce proceeding " . |
| 13 | But Jezrael had lived more than the 3-D heroine and her admirer . |
| 14 | Already that morning she had drunk more than the weekly average for women she 'd noticed displayed on a chart in the Summertown Health Centre waiting-room . |
| 15 | From then his career was hard graft : succeeding Brian Sellers as Yorkshire 's captain he had to rebuild the side which , although talented , never managed more than a shared title ; he won his England place on merit before succeeding Wally Hammond as captain when he had to face Don Bradman 's Australia . |
| 16 | The one major dilemma involved the outer edges of the side panels where lateral extensions probably made in the early nineteenth century had darkened more than the original painting . |
| 17 | But anyone who had read more than a little crime fiction will know that in fact the two often go together . |
| 18 | Baker , at least , was one senior Tory who had read more than the occasional Archer . |