Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems more than a simple displacement of the fear and anxiety with which we contemplate our own old age . |
| 2 | It must be stressed , though , that were it is said above that the researcher will ‘ scan the library ’ for previous writings on the area of study , this means more than a casual walk past the shelves of books which seem to be vaguely related to the topic . |
| 3 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 4 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 5 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 6 | Many show more than a tenfold increase in acidity since 1850 . |
| 7 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 8 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 9 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 10 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 11 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 12 | He was too full to make more than a token protest when Lorton removed the bowl and rolled up the newspaper . |
| 13 | However , these are minor differences insufficient to warrant more than an infraspecific distinction , supporting Mortensen 's ( 1933 ) evaluation . |
| 14 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |
| 15 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 16 | WHEN you 've dragged two successive bosses from burning office blocks , you 're entitled to expect more than a departmental memo by way of thanks . |