Example sentences of "[det] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jellies will shake too , but some more than others . |
| 2 | All of these , some more than others , carry the risk of injury from accidents and even the safety of some long-standing sports — notably rugby — has become the focus of attention . |
| 3 | The vertebral border of the scapula is broken in every case , some more than others , probably as a result of entry into the body cavity by the eagle to extract the heart and lungs . |
| 4 | And liking some more than others . |
| 5 | some more than others . |
| 6 | According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously . |
| 7 | According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously . |
| 8 | But what it shows is how , right from the earliest days , we were always much more than assembly line workers in Malcolm McLaren 's dream factory . |
| 9 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
| 10 | Fortunately , much more than rote learning of ‘ trays , trolleys and treatments ’ is now expected , and a preoccupation with rigid routines is a thing of the past . |
| 11 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 12 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 13 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 14 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |
| 15 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
| 16 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 17 | Likewise on glaciers , tight ropes should prevent anybody from ever dropping much more than waist deep into a hidden crevasse — a position from which the victim can usually be dragged out . |
| 18 | However , there are very few people who know how to survey and excavate underwater , and because it tends to cost so much more than land archaeology it needs to be a very worthwhile site or we have to leave it alone ’ . |
| 19 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 20 | Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites . |
| 21 | Navies had changed much more than armies during the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | His system would mean that single householders on good incomes would pay much more than houses containing two or more people who , together , had poor incomes . |
| 23 | The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would . |
| 24 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 25 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 26 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 27 | The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies . |
| 28 | A The best way to sex L. caeruleus is by the amount of black in the anal fin — males have much more than females and young females have hardly any at all . |
| 29 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher sees the government 's role as one of pump-priming , but much more than pump-priming is required to create the conditions that would encourage private investment in the inner cities . |