Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 2 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 3 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 4 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 5 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the TARDIS , ’ Ace replied , with a smile in which Defries detected more than a hint of malicious enjoyment of her audience 's incomprehension . |
| 7 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 8 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 9 | Typically , he will cite the film All the President 's Men as one of liberal Hollywood 's morale-sapping strikes at US institutions without ever noticing that Richard Milhous Nixon managed more than a bit of subverting on his own account . |
| 10 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 11 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 12 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 13 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 14 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 15 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 16 | Leith felt more than a bit dissatisfied with life when she went to bed that night . |
| 17 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 18 | The JD Tele costs more than the Squier Hank , but will it prove to be better ? |
| 19 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 20 | with the GDR proved more than the conservatives ' right wing could stomach . |
| 21 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |