Example sentences of "about more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly he waved his arms about more than most men when in action . |
| 2 | Admittedly not , and while all his three plays are read more than seen , this one is read about more than read . |
| 3 | No player , with the single exception of Ian Botham , is photographed or talked about more than Graham Gooch , whose story has just been reliably and thoroughly told by Ivo Tennant in a book boldly entitled Graham Gooch , The Biography ( £15.99 ) . |
| 4 | The one thing politicians care about more than anything else is the ballot box . |
| 5 | We can expect more statements in the coming weeks and months and I am certain they will be about more than the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales , which is not a grave legal or constitutional matter . |
| 6 | However , power is about more than physical strength . |
| 7 | The issue was about more than the Chairman 's statue , however . |
| 8 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 9 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 10 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 11 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 12 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 13 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 14 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 15 | And Robert Urquhart had been shown to be lying to her about more than his affections . |
| 16 | The scientific age , with its new chemical and metallurgical industries , produced more pollution and spread it about more than any previous epoch . |
| 17 | Does n't want to get caught , probably been in prison before , may even be on a suspended sentence and if they get caught they 're going to go erm in prison for about more than a year or so . |
| 18 | She half believed him now , simply because she knew a man like Luke would n't invent something of this nature , but the belief was shot through with a conviction that he was talking about more than sating an inconvenient lust . |
| 19 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 20 | Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries . |