Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed .
2 For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages .
3 At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) .
4 Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre .
5 This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) .
6 A bloody battle has been fought in the region … more than a century after the war ended .
7 These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen .
8 The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 !
9 But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery .
10 And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command .
11 British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise .
12 The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC .
13 Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church .
14 It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water .
15 In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ?
16 It is much more likely to be no more than a reflection of the fact that almost everything we know about Richard as Duke of Aquitaine comes from an English chronicler , Roger of Howden , and Roger only has information when he has access to the reports sent by Richard to his father , that is to say when Henry is in England .
17 As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions .
18 It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately .
19 The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision .
20 There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena .
21 After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself .
22 He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself .
23 Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 .
24 It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week .
25 More than a year after the revolution , the euphoria has faded .
26 We must remember , however , that today 's uprating comes more than a year after the Conservative leadership coup and that there can be no excuse for the provisions .
27 More than a year after the publication of the Pastoral Instruction Aetatis Novae on the communications media , I once again invite all of you to reflect on the vision of the modern world which the instruction presented and on the practical implications of the situations it described .
28 Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties .
29 In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony .
30 They would have to wait only very slightly more than a second between the astronaut 's 10:59:58 signal and the one that he sent when his watch read 10:59:59 , but they would have to wait forever for the 11:00 signal .
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