Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Devonian is more than a useful one-day cricketer who does his stuff as a medium-pace seamer. he is rated as a sound technical batsman , sure-footed against the spinner and able to get the short-pitched bowling away . |
| 2 | But to be more than a failed one-term president , he must be driven by these brickbats to decide what kind of president — indeed , what kind of man — he really wants to be . |
| 3 | In general , the idea of forming anything more than a temporary joint household with one or other spouse 's parents is not seen to be a serious option . |
| 4 | The body is no more than a temporary earthly frame for a separate special creation ; it is the soul rather than the body which is endowed with intelligence , sense perception and moral judgement . |
| 5 | Blanche said little , her head no more than a deep blue profile against the window . |
| 6 | If this was anything more than a straightforward clerical error — the only parallel case being Robert Harold of Hungerford , who was stated to own a copyhold worth 8s. — it poses the question , was customary land ever assessed , whether by accident or design ? |
| 7 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 8 | Furthermore , while the nature of the curriculum was shrouded in generalizations , it was clearly intended to offer more than a narrow technical expertise . |
| 9 | As though she had been nothing more than a vulnerable female creature in the presence of her mate . |
| 10 | In the last year , Henderson has proved himself more than a mere economic indicator by giving Lord Hanson a drubbing before he had even formally launched a takeover bid for ICI . |
| 11 | Is this more than a mere technical exercise ? |
| 12 | Further , it should be now , not so much a bizarre , attention-grabbing death as the murder of someone who is more than a mere blood-bathed cadaver . |
| 13 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 14 | But a share is something far more than a mere contractual right in personam . |
| 15 | The Kirkland facade is more than a mere architectural exhibit within the building , for |
| 16 | In aiming to be more than a mere common market , the Treaty emphasised the principle that the problems of one member state would be the problems of all . |
| 17 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 18 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 20 | The side kick delivered from the back foot is comparatively slow and does no more than a good front kick . |
| 21 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 22 | A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice . |
| 23 | James Boiling also returned career-best figures in that game , and deserves more than a regular one-day place . |
| 24 | At its shortest the coat is seen by some designers as little more than a regular outsize jacket . |
| 25 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 26 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 27 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 28 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 29 | In fact , Laura had refused to accept from her friend anything more than a small token sum towards the other girl 's rent . |
| 30 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |