Example sentences of "[adv] more than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 2 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 3 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 4 | The organizational separateness and distinctiveness of the state makes it much more than a mere mirror of , or passive receptacle for , the demands of society . |
| 5 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
| 6 | With a proper programme of training , based on what we know from human athletes and extended by our own work , it should be possible to increase the performance of young horses much more than the empirical methods most trainers use . ’ |
| 7 | Ami Pro 3.0 uses the mouse much more than the previous version . |
| 8 | We have increased expenditure on crime prevention and the police much more than the previous Labour Government , who cut it by 3 per cent . |
| 9 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |
| 10 | ‘ But I walk a fine line of ambiguity because I 'm also reaching a straight audience who need the education much more than the gay audience . |
| 11 | It was hard for him to scrape together more than a few coppers at a time . |
| 12 | Last year GM 's turnover was $123.6bn ( £77bn ) — comfortably more than the gross domestic product of a good few developing countries . |
| 13 | To grant these rights and judicial privileges to corporations ( and other organizations ) is simply to give them additional resources for a judicial battle in which many , particularly the transnationals , are already more than a fair match for national state regulatory agencies . |
| 14 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 15 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 16 | I 'm never away more than a few minutes . |
| 17 | However the weekend was just more than a low key steam event at the Centre at Derby Road for the Centre was also providing one half of the motive power , the two passenger coaches , and operating staff at Preston Docks in connection with the Steam Fair staged as part of the 1992 Preston Guild Celebrations . |
| 18 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 19 | Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them . |
| 20 | They appeared often at different spots , places far apart , sometimes — usually — far off , many miles into the forest , sometimes quite near , not more than a few miles in . |
| 21 | Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path . |
| 22 | And she died not more than a few months ago . |
| 23 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 24 | Nutritionists recommend that about 30 per cent of your daily intake of calories should come from fat , of which not more than a third of those should be saturated ( animal ) fat ; 11 per cent from protein and the rest from carbohydrates . |
| 25 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 26 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 27 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 28 | The American view of neutralisation in the Third World will continue to determine the efficacy of this concept for the resolution or limitation of conflict as much if not more than the Soviet view . |
| 29 | The group also rewarded Egypt for its part in the Gulf alliance by agreeing to write off more than a third of the country 's debt to foreign governments . |
| 30 | There is ostensibly more than a passing similarity between Gedge and another famed Mancunian bedroom termite , Morrissey . |