Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 32 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 33 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
| 34 | The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 . |
| 35 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 36 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
| 37 | It was identified as a six gilled shark weighing 315lbs — more than double the current Irish record of 154lbs landed by Essex angler Andrew Bull in 1968 . |
| 38 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 39 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 40 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 41 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 42 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 43 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 44 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 45 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 46 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 47 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 48 | The word ‘ habitat ’ implies more than simply the physical environment of an animal . |
| 49 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |
| 50 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 51 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 52 | Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image . |
| 53 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 54 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 55 | A bundle of light fibres , which together forms a cable smaller in diameter than a coaxial wire , can carry several hundred TV channels — more than even the most hardened television addict will ever require . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |
| 58 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 59 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 60 | One supplier of this type of boarding , Caradon Celuform , now offers much more than just a maintenancefree material . |