Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] more than a " in BNC.

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1 Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language .
2 Since these have to do with complex processes of political control and relationships between industrial relations actors and the state , an adequate understanding of them and their historical context requires more than a superficial acquaintance with the countries concerned .
3 ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge …
4 The Abbots united for the inevitable photograph bear more than a passing resemblance to a sports team .
5 Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player .
6 The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century .
7 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 .
8 Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model .
9 After a show in Groningen , several complained and the next night they played a mammoth set lasting more than a hour , boasting four encores .
10 But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home .
11 Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that .
12 Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail .
13 Anyone who succeeded in business in the past decade owed more than a little to the climate she created .
14 Gerry Burton 's announcement in April last year that he would not be seeking re-election as Kidson Impey 's national senior partner caused more than a few raised eyebrows .
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