Example sentences of "[verb] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 32 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
| 33 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 34 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 35 | This sponge superficially resembles a living bath sponge more than the other sponges in this book , being bun-shaped , with a minutely pitted external surface . |
| 36 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 37 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 38 | Strict separation was the order of the day , forcing some couples to leave notes in drainpipes and resort to all kinds of strategies if they wished to communicate more than a passing word . |
| 39 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 40 | Lear drew more than the short straw on the Birds of Europe . |
| 41 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 42 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 43 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 44 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 45 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 46 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 47 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 48 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 49 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 52 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 53 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 54 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 55 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 56 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 57 | Insurance premiums for works travelling to and from Paris have risen sharply over recent years , often representing more than a third of the total cost of an exhibition . |
| 58 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 59 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 60 | The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town . |