Example sentences of "more than [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More are appearing all the time , and nineteen eighty two will be no more than a particularly rich year for them . |
| 2 | This view is more than a particularly extreme form of the New Critics ' attack on the ‘ intentional fallacy ’ . |
| 3 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 4 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 5 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 6 | That slight stiffness I mentioned earlier takes a little getting used to , but no more than a slightly eager clutch , say , in a new car . |
| 7 | With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe . |
| 8 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 9 | Indeed , Parkin goes on to suggest that the functionalist theory of stratification itself is an expression of the same value-system : no more than a rather sophisticated mechanism for providing a justification of unequal rewards . |
| 10 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 11 | This Act introduced a new block grant in England and Wales and included a formula which penalized councils which spent more than a previously determined limit . |
| 12 | If so , it would seem to be no more than a logically disreputable form of reasoning to which I have to resort until the scientific study of behaviour puts more rigorous methods at my disposal . |
| 13 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 14 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |
| 15 | Problems usually arise because many reef species are capable of more than a little antisocial behaviour — and it is difficult to lay down precise guidelines regarding their compatibility because marine fish , like people , are individuals and do n't necessarily conform to generalised behaviour patterns . |
| 16 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 17 | Also numerous parcels now belonged to the great religious foundations of the region as a result of pious donations ; if many of these were tenanted in conjunction with other , larger holdings , they were unavailable for small men , while there were not enough of the big farmers , who did occupy them , to employ more than a very limited number of servants . |
| 18 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 19 | In the year beginning November 1917 National Service Medical Boards conducted nearly 2.5 million medical examinations in Great Britain : of every nine men , only three were perfectly fit and healthy , while two were on a definitely ‘ unfirm plane ’ of health and strength , three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and the remaining one was a chronic invalid . |
| 20 | The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off . |
| 21 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 22 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 23 | There are still countries — South Africa being one example — where the great majority of people have never had more than a very restricted right to vote , and many others in which this right has , at various times , been curtailed or abrogated . |
| 24 | Particular attention must be given to the following : ( 1 ) The secrecy obligation is closely linked to Rule 2.2(e) which requires that where more than a very restricted number of people ( ie those in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) are included in pre-offer negotiations or discussions , then an announcement must be made . |
| 25 | ( f ) when a purchaser is being sought for a holding , or aggregate holdings , of shares carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company or when the board of a company is seeking potential offerors , and : ( i ) the company is the subject of rumour and speculation , or ( ii ) there is an untoward movement in its share price , or ( iii ) the number of potential purchasers or offerors approached is about to be increased to include more than a very restricted number of people . |
| 26 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 27 | In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price . |
| 28 | Since even the best attested fact of the history of the past can possess no more than a very high degree of probability and since , by definition , Christian and indeed all religious faith must from the believer 's point of view be absolutely certain and secure , can faith ever be said to depend upon an historical fact , no matter how well established ? |
| 29 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 30 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |