Example sentences of "[is] more [subord] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare .
2 Any service is possible in PR work which is more than half the fun of doing public relations .
3 The distance from Panama to Palawan is more than half the way around the world .
4 This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet .
5 There is more than half the world 's coal — much of it in Manchuria ; half the world 's uranium — much of it in Australia ; half the world 's natural gas ; nine-tenths of the silk , 67 per cent of the cotton , 63 per cent of the wool ; huge iron mines , great deposits of silver and , it has lately been found , a girdle of epithermal gold lodged in the volcanic rocks from the Solomon Islands to northern Japan .
6 Self-Portrait Jumping contains ten tracks ( although one , Dreamachine , is more than half an hour long ) .
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