Example sentences of "perhaps more than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 2 | Perhaps more than any other man in Canada , he has put poetry on the map — at the centre , indeed ; and fought and argued and worked demoniacally to preserve it there . |
| 3 | Born in Romania ( and thus sharing part of Leonard 's eastern European background ) , transferred by his parents to Canada in the harsh years of the early century , he represents , perhaps more than any other , not the genteel ‘ English ’ background common to many of his fellow-workers , but a rough , raw Canadian view that is intensely patriotic , proletarian , passionate and pure . |
| 4 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 5 | Perhaps more than any other application of TL , sediment dating has fired the most interest . |
| 6 | Perhaps more than any other group of molluscs the gastropods are remarkable for the variety and beauty of the external sculpture on the shell , which may be covered with a delicate tracery of ribs and lines , or stout spines , or fine prickles . |
| 7 | Syphilis and its origin are subjects that have occupied physicians and historians over the ages perhaps more than any other condition . |
| 8 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 9 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 10 | It was this aspect of Althusserian theory , perhaps more than any other , that led many orthodox Marxists to consider that Althusser was not really a Marxist at all . |
| 11 | That Test was , perhaps more than any other match , the decider as to whether New Zealand cricket had a future . |
| 12 | TRADITIONAL MUSIC , perhaps more than any other , is a music of intimacy , its strength lies in its informality — that marvellous drop-of-a-hat feeling where a session can occur as if by spontaneous combustion — whereupon stylistic and generational gaps are forgotten , consigned to the four winds , as tunes and songs from other times draw both practitioner and casual listener alike into their seductive glow . |
| 13 | And in religious communities , perhaps more than any other , the experiences and perceptions of the insider will contrast with those of the outsider . |
| 14 | Frank Smith 's ( 1971 ) seminal work , Understanding Reading , has been glorified and vilified perhaps more than any other book about reading , but it has spawned real excitement and self-questioning in teachers . |
| 15 | Perhaps more than any other person , she opened the public relations field in Britain to women . |
| 16 | A judge , however , perhaps more than any other person , is accustomed to making and announcing his decisions in public . |
| 17 | This is the background to the event which perhaps more than any other has fuelled the arguments that the Soviet Union has ‘ expansionist ’ designs on Latin America which can only be countered by US strength . |
| 18 | Sadat , perhaps more than any other Middle Eastern leader in the seventies and eighties , attempted to come to terms with one of the most extraordinary acts of modern times — the creation and development of the state of Israel . |
| 19 | More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ . |
| 20 | Evacuation required the help of a large number of middle-class voluntary workers in the rural areas who , perhaps more than any other section of the population , had very fixed ideas of social propriety ; it was this lobby that propagated the wildly exaggerated and inaccurate stories of the evacuees ' condition . |
| 21 | The electronics industry , perhaps more than any other , often requires adapted or custom built equipment to meet specialised needs . |
| 22 | Travellers and officials looked weary , and we perhaps more than most : we were in our sixth hour of confusion at the border . |
| 23 | Older people , perhaps more than most others , will often express certain feelings , such as contentment or resignation , when they do not represent their real emotions . |
| 24 | WCM readers perhaps more than most will have cherished its long-time contributor 's confident re-entry , all flowing drives and elegant poise , with the occasional nicks to remind us of his vulnerability . |
| 25 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 26 | I realised , perhaps more than most , that it would have been so easy to become absorbed and involved with the boat to the extent of the customs work taking second place . |