Example sentences of "[adv] [be] more [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are several areas in which the continued health of the Course depends upon a collaborative response which must necessarily be more than the aggregate of views of individual fields and departments .
2 The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away .
3 In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer .
4 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
5 But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days .
6 who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story .
7 You also need to allow for the cost of both building and tiling a separate shower enclosure ; this can often be more than the cost if installing the shower itself .
8 He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations .
9 Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function .
10 The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions .
11 Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months .
12 Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away .
13 I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’
14 ‘ I promise I wo n't be more than an hour .
15 Here is more than the chance to do a bit of direct selling or attract further commissions ; there should be the desire to communicate and work with others .
16 This is because the detective here is more than the observer that the Great Detective in essence was .
17 But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game .
18 ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’
19 One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing .
20 He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in .
21 Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities .
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