Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 2 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 3 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 4 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 5 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 6 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 7 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 8 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 9 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 10 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 11 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 12 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 13 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 14 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |