Example sentences of "[vb -s] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 3 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 4 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 5 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 6 | The reader is invited to study this closely , since it illustrates more than the possible treatment of a pencil . |
| 7 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 8 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 9 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 10 | I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual . |
| 11 | The quality of care given during the visits matters more than the actual time spent with them . |
| 12 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 13 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 15 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 16 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 17 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 18 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 19 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 20 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 21 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 22 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 24 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 25 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 26 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 27 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 28 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 29 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 30 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |