Example sentences of "[vb -s] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks more than possible that it will be on its wheels next year . |
| 2 | Those are valuable qualities , but as Enoch Powell suggested a leader needs more than that . |
| 3 | ‘ He needs more than that . |
| 4 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |
| 5 | It 's not good just to occasionally buy a flag , or to sponsor some friends mor marathon , one needs more than good intentions . |
| 6 | A Rottweiler needs more than this ; he must have some purpose . |
| 7 | Both garments are quite windproof but the jacket needs more than thermal underwear under it in wild weather . |
| 8 | But Leviathan contains more than this , for political philosophy is just one part of an ambitious and systematic three-part account of the Elements of Philosophy . |
| 9 | Retired Rossendale headmaster Robin Martin 's book although aimed at and from a predominantly ‘ hiker and leisure ’ publishing company , contains more than enough to demand space on the active light railway enthusiast 's bookshelf . |
| 10 | But she wants more than that . |
| 11 | There is also the diversion of a county programme in the North and West , where the competition still has more than passing meaning . |
| 12 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 13 | By starting with Nicolas de Staël , who was born in Russia and trained in France and Belgium , the Malingue gallery evidently has more than commercial interests in mind . |
| 14 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 15 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 16 | Here at home , banking for business is not an overcrowded market — although painfully short of creditworthy companies — but banking for people has more than enough suppliers with the building societies chasing the same customers . |
| 17 | He concentrates every second on the race because he has more than enough to concentrate on . |
| 18 | Not all the songs played during the evening hailed from the album with the set already suggesting Eddi has more than enough material to record and release another album at fairly short notice . |
| 19 | As a mother of two she has more than enough to do without standing around . |
| 20 | The parallel with studying music has more than structural significance . |
| 21 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 22 | but he 's , he 's the more that has all the qualifications , he has more than any of the others |
| 23 | Little and often , with relaxed pauses between , achieves more than long periods occasionally . |
| 24 | The Heineken effect this research has identified is that created by a confiding trusting relationship , which accompanied by appropriate services , achieves more than any other managerial skill they could identify , to encourage elderly people to believe they could manage independent living and avoid admission to residential care . |
| 25 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 26 | Much of the development of the islets of Langerhans occurs in utero and β cell mass increases more than 130-fold between the 12th intrauterine week and the fifth postnatal month . |
| 27 | As we leave , I glance around to see if anyone shows more than idle curiosity . |
| 28 | This sum equals more than half the entire health and personal social security budget . |
| 29 | I do n't often buy paper from the School Lodge , but as far as I can remember Recycled paper costs more than Ordinary Paper . |
| 30 | Having seen the various statistics covering police forces throughout England , I find that the Liverpool Police Force costs more than any other … |