Example sentences of "[adv] more than a [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 Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 3 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 13 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 22 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 23 | Seven days a week he works on the new ski lodge in the woodlands overlooking the valley , his private quarters little more than a sleeping-bag in a back room behind the new reception area . |
| 24 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 25 | In substance , the Church of England is now self-regulating and Parliament 's role in connection with its legislation little more than a throwback to the days when the established Church had a more substantial role to play in the affairs of the State . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 28 | The wound of entry was small and I 'd say the gun was held at a little more than an inch from the chap 's neck . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |