Example sentences of "[vb base] more than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 2 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 3 | Today , of course , the process is mechanized ; four hundred razor-sharp cutting discs slice more than a yard of cloth in one swift pass . |
| 4 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 5 | Glancing back through what I have written so far , I detect more than a note of cynicism . |
| 6 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 7 | So if you 've more than a mite of sense you 'll point your base somewheres else . |
| 8 | Cars , trucks , planes and boats currently contribute more than a quarter of the annual greenhouse gases worldwide , a percentage that is likely to increase . |
| 9 | You need more than a bowl of water to solve your , to salve your conscience and to , and to be free from innocent blood . |
| 10 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 11 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 12 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 13 | For obvious reasons the dangers of such malpractice are endemic in policing , and it may be ‘ respectable fears ’ about it which fluctuate more than the extent of abuse . |