Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more than [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time .
2 Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) .
3 Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below .
4 The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular .
5 If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 .
6 Local schools , for example , might be involved in more than an annual carol service .
7 It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon .
8 Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince .
9 But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount .
10 In your sexual relations with other people , you need to be aware of more than the behavioural aspects .
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