Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun sg] on [art] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 6 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 7 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 8 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 9 | The men are too tired , the women too remote from the issues of the day , to offer more than a commentary on the quiche or a flirtatious skirmish . |
| 10 | His failure to appreciate that at the time is no more than a commentary on the absence of knowledge about child abuse generally among social workers . |
| 11 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 12 | At first all I could see was the hazy black outline of a jagged peak , little more than a shadow on the pallor of a dead calm sea , and then , as the air shimmered and danced and drew nearer , I could make out colours , mostly green . |
| 13 | A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape . |
| 14 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |
| 15 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 16 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 17 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 18 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 19 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 20 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 21 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 22 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 23 | Herta is no more than the string on the parcel in which the baby sleeps . |