Example sentences of "[adj] more than [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The jellies will shake too , but some more than others .
2 All of these , some more than others , carry the risk of injury from accidents and even the safety of some long-standing sports — notably rugby — has become the focus of attention .
3 The vertebral border of the scapula is broken in every case , some more than others , probably as a result of entry into the body cavity by the eagle to extract the heart and lungs .
4 And liking some more than others .
5 some more than others .
6 A further important aspect of the assessment process was the significance of ASW consultation with male family members , associated with section 2 more than section 3 and to a greater degree with GP than other referrals with non admission .
7 According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously .
8 According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously .
9 But what it shows is how , right from the earliest days , we were always much more than assembly line workers in Malcolm McLaren 's dream factory .
10 Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes .
11 Fortunately , much more than rote learning of ‘ trays , trolleys and treatments ’ is now expected , and a preoccupation with rigid routines is a thing of the past .
12 A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " .
13 The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute .
14 That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys .
15 Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe .
16 By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been .
17 Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa .
18 Likewise on glaciers , tight ropes should prevent anybody from ever dropping much more than waist deep into a hidden crevasse — a position from which the victim can usually be dragged out .
19 However , there are very few people who know how to survey and excavate underwater , and because it tends to cost so much more than land archaeology it needs to be a very worthwhile site or we have to leave it alone ’ .
20 But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society .
21 Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites .
22 Navies had changed much more than armies during the nineteenth century .
23 His system would mean that single householders on good incomes would pay much more than houses containing two or more people who , together , had poor incomes .
24 The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would .
25 This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better .
26 Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ?
27 Design is much more than problem solving .
28 The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies .
29 A The best way to sex L. caeruleus is by the amount of black in the anal fin — males have much more than females and young females have hardly any at all .
30 Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management .
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