Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 2 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 3 | ‘ Dreadful , ’ he replied , and warmed her heart some more when a hint of a smile touched his mouth , and he voiced , ‘ Allow me to tell you , Miss Kingsdale , that your interviewing technique is appalling . ’ |
| 4 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
| 5 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 6 | Is this more than a mere technical exercise ? |
| 7 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 8 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 9 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 10 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 11 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 12 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 13 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 14 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 15 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
| 16 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 17 | For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 20 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 21 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 22 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |
| 23 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 24 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 25 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
| 26 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 27 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 28 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 29 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 30 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |