Example sentences of "[adv] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task . |
2 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
3 | Gina got nastier and nastier when she did n't have money ; she hit him much more than before . |
4 | Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society . |
5 | Their conditions of work bring people together more than ever before , in factories , offices and towns ; and yet at the same time these people are isolated from one another . |
6 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
7 | But — perhaps more than ever before — personal stresses within marriage and stress upon marriage mean that life will not always be blissful or even comfortable . |
8 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
9 | She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples . |
10 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
11 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
12 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
13 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
14 | The dog 's big dish was still more than half full . |
15 | The writing of the book was hardly more than half-way done , but did it need to be done here , ferchrissake ? |
16 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
17 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |
18 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
19 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
20 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
21 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
22 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
23 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
24 | Chief Inspector was slightly more than just a copper , Meredith thought wryly , amused at his apparent self abasement . |
25 | I think that cuckoo nestlings must be doing rather more than just ‘ fooling ’ their hosts , more than just pretending to be something they are n't . |
26 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
27 | Or are you rather more than just het-up ? ’ |
28 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
29 | I would suggest that it has done rather more than just reveal them . |
30 | Motivated by rather more than just military considerations , the EFA was an exercise in European unity , and was governed by the need to give a ‘ fair share ’ of the contracts to each of the participating countries . |