Example sentences of "[adv] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 3 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 4 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 5 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 6 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 7 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 8 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 9 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 10 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 11 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 12 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 13 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 14 | The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs . |
| 15 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | They would have to wait only very slightly more than a second between the astronaut 's 10:59:58 signal and the one that he sent when his watch read 10:59:59 , but they would have to wait forever for the 11:00 signal . |
| 17 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 18 | However , he is not an unmitigated success , giving the show something slightly more than the banality of most sitcoms . |
| 19 | Leapor is given 22 full pages , slightly more than the Countess of Winchilsea [ see ECWP , 194–217 and 4–26 ] . |
| 20 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 21 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 22 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 23 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 24 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 25 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 26 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 27 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 28 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 29 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 30 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |