Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 3 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 5 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 6 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 7 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 8 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |
| 9 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She said not more than a month . |
| 12 | The squalls of driven snow had now more than a hint of frost , so that the part of George 's face that was uncovered was almost numb with cold and stung beneath the bombardment of icy slivers . |
| 13 | What riled Amiss more than the rottenness of the food were the cries of appreciation from Alf and Bert at the fact that strawberry jam had been provided . |