Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the third heaven I thought it I think , I 've , I 've looked in the re the aid book , what does the third heaven , it was er it was more of a , a dream , more of a sym symbolic dream more than natural reality of vision of heaven do you know what I mean ? |
| 2 | On this plane , too , you will notice that neighbouring biomorphs resemble each other more than distant biomorphs . |
| 3 | In Escape from Childhood ( 1974 ) , John Holt notes that children are , in fact , capable of a great deal more than modern society allows them to be . |
| 4 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 5 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 6 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 7 | White men on average earn a good deal more than black men , although the earnings differential between different groups of women is much less . |