Example sentences of "[adv] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 2 | We might suppose from this that Weber is merely echoing Marx 's theories , but in fact Weber emphasises the importance of the market as the economic basis for class much more than property . |
| 3 | Overall , somewhat more than half ( 57 per cent ) thought the law should be obeyed without exception , and slightly less than half ( 43 per cent ) believed that it was occasionally right to follow conscience and break the law . |
| 4 | Promotion is everything there — easily more than love , power , sympathy , or sex . |
| 5 | The importance of their support , in an age when poverty and early death threatened family life in childhood still more than divorce and deprivation today , is brought home by the story of a North Welsh orphan , baptised as John Rowlands . |
| 6 | With HP at say 35 per cent , the instalments would be £4.49 a month still more than saving . |
| 7 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 8 | Coal is likely to make up the largest part of UK energy demand in the year 2000 at 32% , slightly more than oil at 30% . |
| 9 | Of course , the exhibition does rather more than nod to the past . |
| 10 | It means rather more than disharmony , ridicule or derision ; the Act is not meant to penalise those who tell tasteless racist jokes . |
| 11 | Another set of problems that has serious implications for the social survey involves issues to do with data analysis rather more than collection but , none the less , does have a bearing in getting us to understand the limits of the survey and of variable analysis . |
| 12 | Why do n't you admit he 's peddling rather more than leather bags ? ’ |
| 13 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 14 | No tax system can take account of everything , but many commentators feel that Labour 's proposals do little more than transfer money between different sets of people without taking account of the responsibilities that each has to carry . |
| 15 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 16 | She had had only one lover so far , a very young man who had taught her little more than caution . |
| 17 | The terms are of no great importance , and do little more than mark what is the incontrovertible fact of the duality within conscious episodes as we recall them . |
| 18 | These studies lend support to the thesis that labour mobility policies as presently constituted do little more than act as a mild incentive to a very small proportion of migrant workers . |
| 19 | No , a little more than luck . |
| 20 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 21 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 22 | I 'd call it a little more than guidance ! ’ |
| 23 | SE13 's feisty and fabulous Back To The Planet are the Radical Dance Faction it 's OK to like , a likeably ramshackle collective whose penchant for ska rhythms and reggae upholstery ought to merit them little more than outlaw status . |
| 24 | The generators were individually tested , but unfortunately , during the tests of all but the Aero3gen and the Forgen , the winds were rarely more than Force 4 . |
| 25 | In the media which are also visual , a range of resources — physical appearance and the effective means of non-verbal communication — is at least added to the written or recorded form , and the effect is often more than addition ; it is a change of dimension which appears to restore presence , which for the alternative advantages of record and durability writing systems had moved away from . |
| 26 | And consider , as Mrs Browning had never done , the close proximity in which servants lived in these rented apartments — it was very often more than flesh could stand . |
| 27 | Each time house prices rose rapidly , by substantially more than inflation . |
| 28 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 29 | Desmond Bonney has been able to show this for the Enford area of Wiltshire , where the territory of each small settlement can be tentatively defined , even though most of their boundaries never emerge as more than tithing arrangements , if that . |
| 30 | The aim of RE according to the phenomenologists is promoting respect for , and understanding of , religion and its significance for behaviour in such a way as to leave intact pupils ' integrity — it is not educating into religion in any way , but educating about religion understood as more than information because involving a positive and creative approach to pluralism . |