Example sentences of "[adv] more than [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more than any other man in Canada , he has put poetry on the map — at the centre , indeed ; and fought and argued and worked demoniacally to preserve it there . |
| 2 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 3 | Perhaps more than any other person , she opened the public relations field in Britain to women . |
| 4 | A judge , however , perhaps more than any other person , is accustomed to making and announcing his decisions in public . |
| 5 | That Test was , perhaps more than any other match , the decider as to whether New Zealand cricket had a future . |
| 6 | Syphilis and its origin are subjects that have occupied physicians and historians over the ages perhaps more than any other condition . |
| 7 | Perhaps more than any other group of molluscs the gastropods are remarkable for the variety and beauty of the external sculpture on the shell , which may be covered with a delicate tracery of ribs and lines , or stout spines , or fine prickles . |
| 8 | Evacuation required the help of a large number of middle-class voluntary workers in the rural areas who , perhaps more than any other section of the population , had very fixed ideas of social propriety ; it was this lobby that propagated the wildly exaggerated and inaccurate stories of the evacuees ' condition . |
| 9 | Perhaps more than any other application of TL , sediment dating has fired the most interest . |
| 10 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 11 | Frank Smith 's ( 1971 ) seminal work , Understanding Reading , has been glorified and vilified perhaps more than any other book about reading , but it has spawned real excitement and self-questioning in teachers . |
| 12 | Radio fluctuated thereafter more than any other medium . |
| 13 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 14 | Nonetheless the composition of households does change over time , perhaps rather more than much recent research has acknowledged . |
| 15 | Britain has the highest chocolate consumption in the world , far more than any other country . |
| 16 | It was for precisely this reason that Russia , which had far more than any other State to fear from strong government and an active foreign policy in Sweden , did everything in its power to uphold that constitution ( see p. 266 ) . |
| 17 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
| 18 | The OALD prides itself on the number and quality of its examples — it contains far more than any comparable dictionary . |
| 19 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 20 | I 've always wanted to see Venice , almost more than any other place . |