Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] more [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm says its buildings cost no more than modern steel frame houses . |
| 2 | Other criticisms focus on massaging of the data , in the form of simplification of ape utterances in their reporting , so as ( probably unwittingly ) to make them look more like human utterances than the hodge-podges they really are ; and re-analysis of unedited films of ‘ discussions ’ with the apes , showing just what a high proportion of the exchanges embody no more than unconscious cueing by the human experimenter , slavish imitation by the ape , or his redundant expansion and embroidery of their exchanges without commensurate amplification of information conveyed . |
| 3 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 4 | Hailing from the tourist hotspot of Sunderland , Leatherface take their bearings from one of the most influential albums of the Eighties — Husker Du 's ‘ New Day Rising ’ — and add a more than adequate Pop sensibility to convey mainman Frankie Stubbs ' outbursts on the state of the world within and around him . |
| 5 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 6 | However , a distinction surely has to be made between those presidents who alter the terms of the debate and change the course of history and those who achieve no more than marginal change . |