Example sentences of "was [adv] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 2 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 3 | It was perhaps more than the chill air that flushed the parson 's cheeks as he bent to fasten his skates . |
| 4 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 5 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 6 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 7 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 8 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 9 | One may doubt whether this was ever more than a schoolboy game . |
| 10 | There was always more than a hint , of course , that the real source of anxiety was that the bicycle might be enlarging the freedom of women in undesirable directions , because both in terms of class and sex the bicycle was a great leveller . |
| 11 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 14 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 15 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 16 | She was clearly more than a shop assistant . |
| 17 | The contrast with chemistry came up frequently , and there was often more than a hint of reductionism in the comparison : |
| 18 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 19 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 20 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 21 | For Abie this Friday meant something special ; there was even more than the Sabbath to return to . |
| 22 | It was then more than a misjudgement : it revealed the extent to which the religious intellectuals ' theory of church and state was outdated and incoherent . |
| 23 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 24 | It was considerably more than the hour Friar Tuck had reckoned on when he and the Trapper emerged on the track where he had left Marian and Allen . |
| 25 | Pancras in those stations ' heyday was considerably more than the number who use the combined stations today . |
| 26 | July 1945 , and as the number of people expected to attend was considerably more than the Chiswick Town Hall could accommodate , the ceremony was held at the Chiswick Empire , hired for the occasion , and to which ‘ Monty ’ accompanied by the Mayor , Alderman T. W. Stroud , J.P. , rode in a landau carriage through cheering crowds . |
| 27 | This little rose was seldom more than a foot in height and bore deep purple hips , ‘ inclining to black when ripe ’ . |
| 28 | In fact what the same tabloid , in a characteristic retreat into prudery , terms ‘ the sexual act ’ was never more than a terminus ad quem for us . |
| 29 | He liked to boast that , in central London , he was never more than a couple of hundred yards from some club , institution or association of which he was a member and which could provide , at the very least , a roof in a rainstorm . |
| 30 | Train fares and free board and lodging were offered , plus pocket money ‘ where necessary ’ , but this was never more than a pound a week . |