Example sentences of "[vb past] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 2 | But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy . |
| 3 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 4 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 5 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 6 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 7 | " Then if I paid more than just our fares . " |
| 8 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 9 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 10 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 11 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |
| 12 | The Duke leered more than ever . |
| 13 | Access to the king , however , implied more than just access to the fount of patronage ; it also implied the right to give advice on the business of the kingdom . |
| 14 | The NY-5 loved being tuned to dropped D , settled more than happily into DADGAD , and did n't even have a problem coping with a low C on the bottom string in conjunction with a heavy plastic thumbpick . |
| 15 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 16 | A campaign for an environmentally- sensitive national energy policy needed more than ever . |
| 17 | I felt more than just the centre of attention , although that feeling is always present . |
| 18 | But the silence deepened , and she felt more than ever the changes in her . |
| 19 | And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact . |
| 20 | She knew more than either Defries or Daak about sliding rogue instructions into computerized systems . |
| 21 | Doubts could arise only about matters of , as it were , taste , such as manners and morals , where simple quantitative accumulation provided no guidance There could be no question that men in 1860 knew more than ever before , but whether they were ‘ better ’ could not be demonstrated in the same way . |
| 22 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 23 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 24 | Quigley looked more than usually Christian . |
| 25 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 26 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 27 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 28 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 29 | Her service demanded more than just strength and devotion , for she had a most sensitive skin which attracted mosquitoes and during the rainy season and its close , was constantly itching and scratching . |
| 30 | However , securing organizational change and a move to more entrepreneurial strategies demanded more than ever political skills and access to political resources , and this led to a reversion to earlier patterns with the appointment in 1985 of a chairman closely linked to the PSOE . |