Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] more [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
2 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
3 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
4 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
5 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
6 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
7 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
8 | Many spreadsheet users never use more than a mono text mode display ! |
9 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
10 | Cars , trucks , planes and boats currently contribute more than a quarter of the annual greenhouse gases worldwide , a percentage that is likely to increase . |