Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Colonel saw no reason to answer his wife with more than an equivocal smile . |
| 3 | Local schools , for example , might be involved in more than an annual carol service . |
| 4 | But lovely Leslie soon lifted the lid on her co-star 's antics for the camera — and made it clear she was there in more than an ad-visor-y capacity . |
| 5 | to u on more than an annual basis from this end . |
| 6 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 7 | If the result differs from 100% by more than an agreed tolerance then a question mark is output to show doubt about the reading and the count of bad readings is incremented . |