Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC . |
| 32 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 33 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 34 | In a sense he was singing siren songs to that part of himself which had got stuck in the old , dead forms , where the artist mattered more than the content . |
| 35 | If James II were to recapture his throne , it would have to be by force , as the result of a successful foreign invasion , but William 's government proved more than a match , putting down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland , and defeating the prospect of a French-backed invasion with victory at La Hogue in 1692 . |
| 36 | And to say as much — to think as much — was to admit religion , to admit that life held more than the grave at the end of it , to admit that there was a spirit which transcended the poor imperfect flesh . |
| 37 | Second , the duty involves more than a duty of obedience . |
| 38 | I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | This means that the breeding cycle takes more than a year to complete , with the result that the birds are unable to breed every year . |
| 41 | Ebullient in character , a Nobel laureate retaining more than a touch of the New York kid , Feynman is keenly interested in teaching physics as well as creating it . |
| 42 | The background tells more than the people or the happenings : the water-sprinkler on the lawn ; the hateful birds with their ‘ strident and spiteful noises ’ and ‘ those banal exchanges from tree to tree , mockings and bickerings and sudden solo trillings ’ ; the cook with a napkin fastened round her head as if it were a Stilton cheese … . |
| 43 | Wytch Farm proved more than a match for Savills , the property services and estate management consultants to BPX , during a friendly game of cricket in August . |
| 44 | However , even given that restriction , the report gave more than a nod and a wink in the direction of the collective security that trade unions could provide if they nominated members of safety committees . |
| 45 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 46 | When there is a great wish for something to be true but the evidence for it is not yet complete , it can require great strength to resist the pressure to say more than the data warrant . |
| 47 | The cobweb model highlights the complexity of global interconnections , but globalization involves more than the proliferation of links . |
| 48 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
| 49 | The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry . |
| 50 | And even though the same scientists were involved in that experimentation , Rohmer could not resist a kind of immature pride in the fact that his unit had more than the others . |
| 51 | Jack Schofield on a company feeling more than the pinch of a weak US economy IBM in a downsizing squeeze . |
| 52 | A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved . |
| 53 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 54 | After a show in Groningen , several complained and the next night they played a mammoth set lasting more than a hour , boasting four encores . |
| 55 | And in a speech lasting more than an hour , he accused the Republicans of lying to keep the power , prestige and perks of presidency . |
| 56 | The beauty about making the batsman hit into the V is that the bowler can pack his fielders in that area of the field and make it extremely difficult for the batsman to score more than a single . |
| 57 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | This principle was carried further by the House of Lords ' decision in Williams and Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 408 , which found that a wife who made a financial contribution to the purchase of a house acquires more than an interest in the proceeds of sale : she acquires an interest in the land itself , which can take effect as an overriding interest , in the case of registered land , under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ( g ) . |