Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comics cram a great deal of information into a brief space , which makes them a potent force for more than mere storytelling . |
| 2 | This would require prior authorisation from the Home Secretary for any procedure ‘ likely to cause pain , suffering or distress of more than momentary duration or trivial intensity , which can not be alleviated ’ . |
| 3 | But the hunt is a setting of more than ornamental significance : when the young men of Judith 's retinue aid the display of the prince 's virtue , they symbolically carry out their political roles of aides and adjutants . |
| 4 | And driving a motor caravan is a real pleasure with more than enough power to keep on going . |
| 5 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 6 | We went on forward into a narrow passage beside yards of hot hammering engine of more than head height , throbbingly painful to the senses , and then passed over a coupling into another engine , even longer , even noisier , even hotter , the very stuff of hell . |
| 7 | They must be in need of more than routine maintenance , be part of a pattern of hedgerows visible to the public , valuable to wildlife and/or of historical significance . |
| 8 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 9 | The plot of each book is built on the physical fact of impersonation : the emotional content depends on character , as the Englishman in effect proves himself worthy to be a king in more than mere appearance . |
| 10 | There , musicianship and musical intelligence count for more than mere voice . |
| 11 | That the kindred of Osbern of Eu and the kindred of William fitzOsbern with their friends had succeeded in carrying Duke William to a resounding victory against the invasion of his combined enemies was therefore news of more than ordinary importance . |
| 12 | In general , do not exceed the total time of the still air pattern by more than 1 minute . |
| 13 | He first of all distinguishes human suffering from that of animals but then defines the latter as ‘ the unpleasant emotional response to more than minimal pain and distress ’ ( 1989 : 97 ) . |
| 14 | Today , the odds are that it will not survive in its present form for more than another generation . |
| 15 | activities involving ‘ a more than ordinary risk of accidents or a risk of more than ordinary damage if accidents in fact result ’ — as a basis for future development of the law . |
| 16 | He kissed her hand with more than necessary gallantry and Jenna turned away as jealousy once again bit deeply into her . |
| 17 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 18 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 19 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 20 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 21 | WITH a 40 per cent drop in house prices in the West Country over the past three years , this is the time to think seriously about that Cornish cliff-top cottage , waterfront Dorset flat or Devonian mansion with more than enough land to keep a few horses . |
| 22 | This means that resonant photoionization offers no particular advantages and photoelectron spectroscopy is best done using a monochromatic light source with more than sufficient energy to ionize the electrons of interest . |