Example sentences of "more than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |
| 6 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 9 | This little rose was seldom more than a foot in height and bore deep purple hips , ‘ inclining to black when ripe ’ . |
| 10 | The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period . |
| 11 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 12 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 13 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 20 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 21 | Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records . |
| 22 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 23 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 24 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 25 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 26 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 27 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |
| 28 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 29 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 30 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |