Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 2 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 3 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
| 4 | Furthermore , while the nature of the curriculum was shrouded in generalizations , it was clearly intended to offer more than a narrow technical expertise . |
| 5 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 6 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |