Example sentences of "[det] more than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 32 | They should be much more than the over-all journey broken down into smaller sections . |
| 33 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 34 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 35 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 36 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 37 | Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force . |
| 38 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 39 | It proposed a shot-gun marriage between two parties who , so far from having anticipated the bliss of that honourable estate , had ventured nothing much more than the frozen smile of recognition that passes for politeness between opponents who see in one another much to dislike and little to love . |
| 40 | ( g ) Skipp is to be treated as a case where " there was much more than the mere consent of the owner . |
| 41 | Halifax Property Services offer much more than the traditional role of the estate agent . |
| 42 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 43 | The reinstatement was thorough , taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate . |
| 44 | With earnings of £188 per week ( Nov. 1984 figures ) , the family would have a disposable income ( after tax , national insurance and mortgage and typical rate payments , but including child benefit ) of £89 per week : this is not much more than the Supplementary Benefit Long-term Scale Rate for that family of £76 per week at that time . |
| 45 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
| 46 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 47 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 48 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 49 | Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number . |
| 50 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 51 | The result is that , in international terms , where once it was the paradigm , Britain is now little more than a jaded footnote . |
| 52 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 53 | It 's all sturdy and dense and impressively intense , but it amounts to little more than a grumpy grumble from the arty side of town . |
| 54 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 55 | I returned to his caravan the following afternoon after school bearing my load , which was by then little more than a dusty stain on the inside of a beaker . |
| 56 | Risking the loss of her usual cool dignity , and wearing little more than a feather-trimmed tutu and high heels , Linda was filmed clinging to the building and edging along it before plunging , screaming , to the ground . |
| 57 | The policy was based on little more than a vague belief in the large potential for economies of scale and an unquenchable faith among politicians that government agencies could successfully meet short-term political demands — particularly in respect of regional unemployment — in combination with longer-term goals of greater efficiency and higher industrial growth . |
| 58 | Though David Newnham , in the Guardian ( 24 July 1990 ) , calls the film " post- modernism : the movie " , Scott 's version is little more than a violent adventure story . |
| 59 | The Harpies ' cave is little more than a smelly hollow in the side of the hill , and contains nothing of interest , save for old bones from the Harpies ' victims . |
| 60 | A short distance further on , Julius turned off on to what was little more than a narrow track . |