Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 2 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 3 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 4 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 5 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 6 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 7 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 8 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 9 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |
| 10 | Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed . |
| 11 | Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise . |
| 12 | Part Two consists of an appraisal of each of the 17 counties — Durham are still too young to warrant more than a mention . |