Example sentences of "[adv] more than an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thus gave specific attention to the instinctive bases of human behaviour , this being much more than an attempt to make an analogy between the human world and the struggles for survival identified by Darwin in the natural world . |
| 2 | One of them , a handsome man scarcely more than an adolescent , shouted something in a high voice . |
| 3 | Lord Jauncey stated that the issue was whether clause 3 amounted to an unlawful and invalid fetter on TBL 's statutory power to increase its share capital or whether it was not more than an agreement between shareholders about their manner of voting in a given situation . |
| 4 | For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels . |
| 5 | I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch . |
| 6 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 7 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 8 | It is perhaps hardly more than an anecdote , generally quite short in length , in which towards the end the reader , who has been gently led along one seemingly well-defined path , is suddenly switched into seeing the situation in quite a different light . |
| 9 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 11 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 12 | Rather more than an hour later , the party leaders sent a message asking the King to return . |
| 13 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 14 | The wound of entry was small and I 'd say the gun was held at a little more than an inch from the chap 's neck . ’ |
| 15 | Alex Yorke got back to his apartment a little more than an hour later . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 17 | Bran cereals and muesli are rather more weighty , so here people tend to serve out more than an ounce just so that it looks sufficient . |
| 18 | However , recruitment companies should provide far more than an emergency relief service and should be able to deal with all problematical staff-finding jobs in a diplomatic and professional manner . |
| 19 | AIDS , after all , is far more than an epidemic . |
| 20 | The baby on the way was all that the marriage had going for it , and even then , if Rachel was n't around , he had a roving eye , and sometimes more than an eye , although at that stage he was technically faithful , I think . |
| 21 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 22 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 23 | Picasso did not take to Beatrice , but her column two weeks later benefited : ‘ By the way ’ , she wrote , ‘ M. Picasso is painting a portrait of M. Max Jacob in a style , the mere rumour of which is causing all the little men to begin to say that , of course , Cubism was all very well in its way , but was never more than an experiment . |