Example sentences of "more [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 2 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 3 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 4 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 5 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 6 | This little rose was seldom more than a foot in height and bore deep purple hips , ‘ inclining to black when ripe ’ . |
| 7 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 8 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 9 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 10 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 11 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 12 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 13 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 14 | When the dark blue uniforms of a sergeant and constable appeared in the doorway , they stood out like sore thumbs , causing more than a ripple of interest from the somewhat less than friendly clientele . |
| 15 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 16 | But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity . |
| 17 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 18 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 19 | It 's no more than a change of clothing . |
| 20 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 21 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 22 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 23 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 26 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
| 27 | Bosses at Reads in Bootle called in the liquidator after battling for more than a year against cash flow problems . |
| 28 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 29 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 30 | 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt . |