Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all these agreements remain little more than pious hopes , even when , as in the case of Anna Wolska , President Walesa himself attempted to translate them into action . |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Seven supplements , 136 pages and a rolling roster of high profile commentators aggressively signal the ST 's intention to represent ‘ every shade of opinion ’ even if , given the paper 's overall ideological complexion , some of the captured names suggest little more than tokenism . |
| 4 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 5 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 6 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 7 | Instead of government-rigged prices , they want little more than a reaffirmation of existing anti-dumping rules . |
| 8 | I want that more than anything in the world . ’ |
| 9 | The provisions the Committee recommend for inclusion involve little more than a restatement of the existing common law position : |
| 10 | At the higher levels of government , candidates are usually selected by the top leaders themselves , another element of ‘ top down ’ power , making the actual election process little more than a ‘ rubber stamping ’ exercise . |
| 11 | You asked to be friends , and , of course , I agree , though really I want much more than that . ’ |
| 12 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 13 | I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think . |
| 14 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 15 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |
| 16 | Some , such as froghoppers ( ‘ cuckoo spit ’ ) and flea beetles , cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants . |
| 17 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 18 | An inexpensive pond heater will solve the problem — and cost little more than a lightbulb to run . |
| 19 | Both these publications cover much more than just books and the International Bibliography is very good for foreign language journal literature . |
| 20 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
| 21 | Second , games cost much more than those for 8-bit home micros . |
| 22 | Both developments produced their frustrations , dangers and , for their shareholders , disappointed expectations , and both cost much more than estimated . |
| 23 | ‘ If you have money to spare , it makes sense to pay these off first because they cost much more than you 'd earn from savings . |
| 24 | In Britain and elsewhere in Europe , CDs commonly cost much more than in America . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 26 | Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force . |
| 27 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 28 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 29 | In comparison with Porter 's work , the lists of factors given by General Electric back in the 1970s now seem little more than a tentative beginning at an appropriate form of analysis . |
| 30 | We 're not just surface any more but voluminous and deep-sea , with our wiggling flora , our warped fish . |