Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] more [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest .
2 Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had .
3 While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter .
4 HAMLET : S'blood , there is something in this more than natural , if philosophy could find it out .
5 In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars .
6 When Jean-Claude and I quit Park Terrace we did so with tea-chests packed with valuables of mine , largely selected by him from many more than we could manage to take .
7 But he also gives it an edge and an urgency that turn it into much more than an abstract cafe debate .
8 you ca n't put it on any more cos only little poofters wear nail varnish , do they ?
9 The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King .
10 ( Papineau , 1985a ) I shall content myself with little more than some comments .
11 However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs .
12 The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge .
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