Example sentences of "[vb -s] more [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 2 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 3 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 4 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 5 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 6 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 7 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 8 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 9 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 10 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 11 | It 's much too late to make a pitch on consistency no one person knows or understands more than a fraction of one discipline among many anymore . |
| 12 | The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC . |
| 13 | Second , the duty involves more than a duty of obedience . |
| 14 | The British system of government involves more than a network of departments headed by ministers . |
| 15 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |
| 16 | In France too , corruption has played a part , though so has the ennui that follows more than a decade of rule by one party . |
| 17 | Mystery Miguel , they call him , and he never does more than a couple of songs . |
| 18 | Britain 's second biggest electricity supplier , which generates more than a quarter of the nation 's electricity , is urging the Government to close down out-of-date nuclear power stations . |
| 19 | As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ . |
| 20 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |