Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 2 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 3 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 4 | We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth . |
| 5 | First there had been the stone tubs on the forecourt , a constant temptation to vandals who got a more than commonly satisfying kick from ravishing these particular flowers . |
| 6 | Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways ? |
| 7 | But this could be seen as simply a more than usually coherent version of a familiar Austro-German interpretation of nineteenth century music history , which sets an over-privileged Viennese tradition at its normative centre . |
| 8 | Elsewhere there is some very good singing , especially from the excellent Marina of Stevka Mineva , the more than usually listenable Grigory of Michail Svetlev , and Boris Martinovich 's splendidly sinister Rangoni . |
| 9 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 10 | The economists , for example , have insisted on more and more technical emphasis in order to ( as they see it ) equip ‘ their ’ graduates to compete better in the marketplace . |