Example sentences of "[adj] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was funny , actually it was on that one , I think he was a little bit erm sexually-orientated more than average this gentleman , cos he 'd got the four poster bed . |
| 2 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 3 | MUSIC scores , some more than 100-years-old , were destroyed early yesterday in an arson attack on a hall used by a well-known silver band . |
| 4 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 5 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 6 | Nobody rails against this more than environmental groups . |
| 7 | HAMLET : S'blood , there is something in this more than natural , if philosophy could find it out . |
| 8 | The most conspicuous group to emerge from the 947 names on the Prime Minister 's list — about 30 more than usual — are key figures in the traumatic aftermath to the terrorist bombing of Pan-Am 's Flight 103 over Lockerbie last December . |
| 9 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 10 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 11 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 12 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 13 | Highly theory-dependent explanations of these patterns then appear to be not much more than inspired common sense . |
| 14 | The fact that uncommitted voters who read the Sun or Star swung so much more than other uncommitted voters suggests that these papers were particularly good at influencing their readers . |
| 15 | Making allowances for variations in people 's familiarity with each type of credit ( judged by how often they applied any labels to each type ) , some types of credit were labelled as expensive much more than other types . |
| 16 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 17 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 18 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 19 | These reforms have encouraged some historians to see the Despensers as ‘ much more than greedy and irresponsible favourites ’ , but their contemporaries judged them by their behaviour towards other landowners and by their position at court , rather than by their responsibility , however great it was , for what were essentially technical reforms in government . |
| 20 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |
| 21 | This was always ‘ the morning after the day before ’ for Dad who used to eat much more than usual on Christmas Day and the nuts that he consumed , plus the unaccustomed glass or two of Cripp 's Tarragona wine all went to help upset his tummy . |
| 22 | On the occasions when I have tried this , I have found that I enjoy admiring what I have done much more than usual — the finished job seems to have a glow , which lasts longer than one would expect . |
| 23 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 24 | This involves much more than mere physical requirements . |
| 25 | Yet body language often tells us so much more than mere words . |
| 26 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 27 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
| 28 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 29 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 30 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |