Example sentences of "more than a [adj] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF it 's more than a small amount that you 're drinking and also a regular thing then booze may not be quite as harmless as you think . |
| 2 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 3 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 4 | Nor would Edwin concede more than a spineless encouragement that she be hopeful and humble in their work together . |
| 5 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 6 | Resort to such concepts as ‘ common sense ’ and ‘ knowledge of human nature ’ , is little more than a veiled admission that no satisfactory criteria have been found . |
| 7 | And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway . |
| 8 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 9 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |