Example sentences of "[adv] more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Akrokorinth dominates the Isthmus region , and it is one reason why Aratos ' home city of Sikyon just west of Corinth was never more than a second-rate power . |
| 32 | The UBC was never more than a small minority of the parliamentary party , with a general attendance of about forty , and its influence was more a result of its being first in the field of opposition , than of its numbers or its members " economic power . |
| 33 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 34 | For us , the Sixties were never more than a distant rumour overheard on Radio Caroline . |
| 35 | Although never more than a competent actress , she was an extremely decorative and popular one , at her best in plays about upper-class society . |
| 36 | A more viable approach accepts the on-going nature of educational change — the journey is more important than the destination in the sense that one is real and the other never more than a shifting image . |
| 37 | UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great . |
| 38 | She was never more than a light comedy performer who made a virtue of her acting limitations by being amusing as she demonstrated them . |
| 39 | Easy to say that the Movement was never more than a journalistic invention — the more so since its principals were ( almost certainly ) never together in one room . |
| 40 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |