Example sentences of "[indef pn] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 2 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 3 | All were somewhat fuddled with drink but none more than the Mayor and his party . |
| 4 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 5 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 6 | A polyurethane coating then seals the pores , usually making the surfaces slick and shiny , one more than the other . |
| 7 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 8 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 9 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 10 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 11 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 12 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 13 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 14 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 15 | Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’ |
| 16 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 17 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 18 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 19 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 20 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 21 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 22 | It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system . |
| 23 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 24 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 25 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 26 | Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official . |
| 27 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 28 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 29 | Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision . |
| 30 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |