Example sentences of "[pron] more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 2 | It is also to be found in the special character of the theory of language which more than any other was responsible for this development , that of the Swiss philologist and professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857–1913 ) . |
| 3 | The material which more than any other influenced the whole course and design of Roman architecture was concrete and this made the vaulting of huge spans possible . |
| 4 | In the past something more than this suspicion was required . |
| 5 | US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher dismissed the proceedings as a " travesty of justice , nothing more than another attempt by Libya to delay and evade its responsibility " . |
| 6 | Although the room and the whole house was full of really good stuff made or renovated by Dadda , secretly he valued nothing more than this bust . |
| 7 | As yet Cregagh Bonsai is in its infancy but Stephen is in no doubt that the interest in the trees will give him more than enough business to handle . |
| 8 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 9 | But , with a sinking feeling that chilled her more than any explosion of anger on his part , she realised that she was far from sure that such consent would be denied . |
| 10 | This last notion stunned her more than any other . |
| 11 | At first they had no idea that the stretch of pale , shallow water beyond the Cape would present them with anything more than another disappointment . |
| 12 | After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move . |
| 13 | It gives us more than enough space and time to do what we want , even given the pressures of frequent assessment . ’ |