Example sentences of "more [conj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 2 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 3 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 4 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 5 | Mr Wise 's Mill continued to make cloth for some time , although it is not clear whether the firm of Ellis and Apperly , who were later recorded there , were more than tenants for a while . |
| 6 | Religions as sociological entities are not meant to be more than stepping-stones to an appreciation of the profound Mystery at the heart of reality . |
| 7 | Most sites do not produce remains that can be readily understood by casual visitors , and they often consist of little more than holes in the ground showing where posts once formed part of a timber building , pits dug for various purposes , or ditches for drainage , boundaries and defence . |
| 8 | They constitute no more than pointers towards an agenda for more detailed , empirical research . |
| 9 | But there are four reasons why these years should not be used as anything more than points on a continuum . |
| 10 | Who the hell are we , poor little people , against that , nothing , we 're nothing we 're just little bloody flies on the , on the , no more than flies on the edge of the bloody universe you know , I 'm sorry . |
| 11 | The ‘ flak helpers ’ had been little more than children at the time of Hitler 's great ‘ triumphs ’ , and in the hail of bombs , the destruction , and the retreating armies , the remaining image of the Führer as the military genius bore scant relation to their daily experience of reality . |
| 12 | At first their station buildings were primitive affairs , no more than clearings in the bush with tin huts . |