Example sentences of "more [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ? |
| 2 | To outsiders , the two events may seem little more than an international organization at work , but for Amnesty members these events are charged with significance . |
| 3 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 4 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 5 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 6 | For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June . |
| 7 | At Liben railway station in the northern outskirts of Prague , East Germans queued cheerfully in drizzle for more than an hour to enter the departure hall . |
| 8 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
| 9 | More than an hour of cut-and-thrust football followed , and both goalkeepers , especially Simon Taylor of Clitheroe and Lancashire , were kept busy before David Mason sealed his team 's first victory of the season . |
| 10 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 11 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 12 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 13 | Perhaps what is at work here is a fear of the other as same not unlike the fascinated fear of the primitive in the notion of ‘ going native ’ : a metamorphosis into the radically other which is no more than an all too easily imagined regression into one 's own ‘ primitive ’ past . |
| 14 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 15 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 16 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 17 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 18 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 19 | I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch . |
| 20 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 21 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 22 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 23 | The second game in the three-match one-day series , reduced from four after the first was downgraded to a friendly , was suspended after little more than an hour 's play . |
| 24 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
| 25 | A poll of voting intentions — published on May 21st , but taken before Mrs Cresson 's appointment — indicated that the two main right-wing parties would easily win a general election with 40% of the vote , giving them around 336 seats ( 47 more than an absolute majority ) . |
| 26 | Hanson , say its detractors , is no more than an artful asset-stripper . |
| 27 | Mr Ishihara is no more than an entertaining distraction in Japanese politics : a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , but one with no power base and whose views count for little . |
| 28 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 29 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 30 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |