Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 2 | The rest of the human was normally little more than the wrong end of a pair of nostrils , a long way up . |
| 3 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 4 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 5 | Until recently , the Aborigines have always been regarded as little more than the exceptional survivors of prehistoric man , a view based primarily on the materialistic aspects of their culture , its ‘ hardware ’ . |
| 6 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 7 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |