Example sentences of "[adv] more than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 4 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 5 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 11 | However , he is not an unmitigated success , giving the show something slightly more than the banality of most sitcoms . |
| 12 | Leapor is given 22 full pages , slightly more than the Countess of Winchilsea [ see ECWP , 194–217 and 4–26 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 21 | Both Hammerschmidt and Dedekind , and indeed Heinrich Albert , were far surpassed in variety and creative power by a young pupil of Samuel Scheidt , Adam Krieger ( 1634–66 ) who published in his lifetime little more than a collection of fifty Arien for one to three voices with string ritornelli ( Leipzig , 1657 ) , though posthumous Neue Arien appeared in 1667 ( augmented in 1676 ) . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 23 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 24 | We have seen how the interaction of environment and genes has had a feedback effect , and how the fossils of primitive horses show they were little more than the size of large dogs . |
| 25 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 26 | Eighty billion dollars was a little more than the mind of Colt could cope with . |
| 27 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 28 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 29 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 30 | The contrast with chemistry came up frequently , and there was often more than a hint of reductionism in the comparison : |