Example sentences of "[noun] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Escape from Childhood ( 1974 ) , John Holt notes that children are , in fact , capable of a great deal more than modern society allows them to be . |
| 2 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 3 | White men on average earn a good deal more than black men , although the earnings differential between different groups of women is much less . |
| 4 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 5 | In actual fact the exchange of Kula valuables does a good deal more than that , though to explain how this comes about would require an extended discussion of Melanesian ethnography which would not be appropriate . |
| 6 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 7 | He smiled a harsh smile and held her eyes as he told her , ‘ You may be able to offer Kirsty a comfortable single-parent home in London , but I can offer her a great deal more than that … ’ |
| 8 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 9 | This might seem at first sight to express the naive view that onomatopoeia and other kinds of sound symbolism constitute essential features of poetry , but Wimsatt 's conception of the iconic function of language embraces a great deal more than this . |
| 10 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 11 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 12 | All it means to me is one owes two pound more than other one . |
| 13 | the third heaven I thought it I think , I 've , I 've looked in the re the aid book , what does the third heaven , it was er it was more of a , a dream , more of a sym symbolic dream more than natural reality of vision of heaven do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | But , with fog lying constantly in the valley , it was not a healthy place for a school , and by May more than half the girls were seriously ill with typhus fever . |
| 15 | Small container-grown or potted trees are about £10 , while rooted and root-balled trees are about £3 more than cut trees . |
| 16 | Worth remembering is the fact that it was offered here last year by Waddington for 20% more than that . |
| 17 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 18 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 19 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 20 | He added if independent nurseries were included in the statistics more than half of three and four-year-olds now attended school , a figure only bettered in Europe by France and Belgium . |
| 21 | And Steffi Graf earned £130,000 MORE than fellow countryman Boris Becker , although they both played the same number of official tournaments — 15 . |
| 22 | On this plane , too , you will notice that neighbouring biomorphs resemble each other more than distant biomorphs . |
| 23 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 24 | That would provide the nutrients your body needs , but whether the mechanics of your digestive system would be happy with a diet of tablets and pills instead of bulky food is of course more than doubtful , as our bodies are not constructed that way . |
| 25 | They were of course more than welcome , and their contribution to the establishment of good standards was of very great value , but we knew that they represented a limited resource that would be quickly exhausted . |
| 26 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 27 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 28 | I think that in due time the British people will want to know a bit more than that . |
| 29 | It 's a bit more than that , Katie . ’ |
| 30 | Radical intervention demands a bit more than that , I think . |