Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game .
2 Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish .
3 The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends .
4 Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road .
5 There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena .
6 The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life .
7 But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies .
8 Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools .
9 All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts .
10 In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made .
11 Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty .
12 At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types .
13 But the Church is much more than a place of worship .
14 Erm presidents of the nineteenth century very often took the view that the president was not much more than a sort of constitutional monarch , er a dignified part of the constitution to use er Bagehot 's phrase .
15 He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones .
16 It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people .
17 Much more than the rest of them .
18 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant .
19 He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together .
20 To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp .
21 Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies .
22 ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress .
23 We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission .
24 He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms .
25 It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data .
26 Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind .
27 But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) .
28 Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts .
29 When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship .
30 The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location .
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