Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 2 | Yet body language often tells us so much more than mere words . |
| 3 | Fat women risk so much more than thin women when starting a sexual relationship , because we are taught that we are not capable of inspiring love or lust : we have forfeited the right to be sexual because our bodies are incompatible with desire . |
| 4 | The park , directly across from her house , was completely obliterated beneath the snow , the bushes now little more than vague mounds , and the trees standing stark and forlorn . |
| 5 | Many of the pubs which are passed off as ‘ historic ’ to the visitor and tourist prove to be only film-set facades on what are now little more than youthful amusement arcades or glorified fast-food cafes . |
| 6 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 7 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 8 | It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart . |
| 9 | Hospitals are developing computer systems which are often not compatible with one another and are being used as little more than expensive word processors . |
| 10 | Indeed , iconoclasm has frequently been portrayed as little more than mindless vandalism perpetrated by Philistine bigots . |
| 11 | This theory regards purring as little more than heavy breathing of the type humans sometimes indulge in when they are asleep — in other words , snoring . |
| 12 | The requirement that analysis be objective or scientific is often little more than another means of social control . |
| 13 | Some Whigs were implicated in Jacobite activities , amongst them John Wildman , Charles Mordaunt ( third Earl of Monmouth ) , the Earls of Dorset and Shrewsbury , and the Duke of Bolton , although whether we should see their alleged intrigues as much more than fire-insurance Jacobitism is unclear . |
| 14 | This is a new requirement for most information systems , which have simply expanded to contain ever more data , relevant and timely or not ; but it is surely little more than good practice should require in the interests of efficient and economical operation . |
| 15 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 16 | In connection with this it should also be remembered that all popular places , all sites actually used by the people , tend to retain the best routine of antiquity very much more than any localities or machines used by any privileged class . |