Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As secretary of that organisation , I have to declare more than a personal interest but the presentation , during the Association 's annual dinner , held for the first time in the Debenture Holders Lounge at The All England Club , was clearly a most popular choice . |
| 32 | What booksellers can hope adequately to display more than a mere handful of these — and often then at the expense of much more saleable backlist titles with greater literary and commercial credentials ? |
| 33 | What bookseller can hope adequately to display more than a mere handful of these — and often then at the expense of much saleable backlist titles ? ’ |
| 34 | In certain mines the men were not allowed to earn more than a certain sum but there is no evidence of this invidious practice at Coniston . |
| 35 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
| 36 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 37 | However , these are minor differences insufficient to warrant more than an infraspecific distinction , supporting Mortensen 's ( 1933 ) evaluation . |
| 38 | FORMER England manager Bobby Robson was disappointed by the failure of his new club , Sporting Lisbon , to achieve more than a goalless home draw at the start of the Portuguese League season . |
| 39 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 40 | As soon as a society is able to produce more than the bare minimum needed for survival , it is possible for classes to emerge . |
| 41 | But if your report is to produce more than the predictable yawn then it must be different . |
| 42 | He was fast reaching the conclusion that Cora-Beth wanted him to feel more than a friendly affection for her ; that perhaps she even wanted him to fall in love with her . |
| 43 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 44 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 45 | He was too full to make more than a token protest when Lorton removed the bowl and rolled up the newspaper . |
| 46 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |