Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may lean towards simple solid-riffing more than the likes of the Babes or the dark Hole , but here , this alternative heavy steel sound has some ecstatic , if not inventive moments . |
| 2 | Rune enters the crowded hall more than an hour late . |
| 3 | When we published the original White Paper more than a year ago , the overall reaction was , ’ Good ideas , let's wait to see how they are delivered . ’ |
| 4 | Some of the greatest ever test series have included the Springboks — nobody loves a free-flowing , fast game more than the South Africans . |
| 5 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
| 6 | Nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drum roll on an unrelated note . |
| 7 | Mindful , perhaps , of the events of 1801 and 1825 , he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion . |
| 8 | The first modern pioneers began to probe inner space more than a century ago , but the data are still highly speculative , confusing , contradictory , and with a marked absence of hard facts . |
| 9 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 10 | The severity of periodontal disease increased the risk of total mortality more than the risk of coronary heart disease ( table III ) . |
| 11 | Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher . |
| 12 | One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds . |
| 13 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 14 | Probably nothing politicised sport more than the decline in state school activity . |
| 15 | This , together with the formal dress and language of the ( largely male ) participants , gave the whole event more than a touch of courtroom formality . |
| 16 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |