Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |
| 2 | Smith 's job is to make people see he could care less , can do something about Britain 's problems and that his words are worth more than those of Johnny Devaluation . |
| 3 | If this failed , words were assigned weights on an inverse term frequency basis ( uncommon words are worth more than common words ) , and the system would look for records containing just some of the words of the search . |
| 4 | There are two reasons why this 1956 mono recording of Orff 's well-worn choral work is of more than usual interest . |
| 5 | The issue was about more than the Chairman 's statue , however . |
| 6 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
| 7 | The withdrawal of delegates from the UN from the conference is of more than symbolic importance . |
| 8 | The Kaduna-based Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo ( ‘ The Truth is Worth More than a Penny ’ ) , took this allegation further by quoting from a leading Kaduna State politician : |
| 9 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 10 | This point is of more than academic interest since there are , in fact , quite significant differences in the functional organization of apparently homologous structures in different species . |
| 11 | This point is of more than theoretical significance . |
| 12 | ‘ Some things are worth more than money . ’ |
| 13 | Clark capitulated and stayed with Virgin , on the grounds that idiosyncrasy and fun were worth more than conventional careerism . |
| 14 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 15 | But the effect of this series of pessimistic changes was to more than double the estimates for wave power up to a range of 8–12 p/kWh . |
| 16 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 17 | The fact that Scotland tried to rise to the occasion was worth more than just two precious points . |
| 18 | Looking after your Capital — many people are worth more than they think . |
| 19 | These studies of immediate memory span are of more than historical interest because the fact that there is such a severe limit is important in the design of information presentations of technical data — a standard ergonomics problem . |
| 20 | His collection is worth more than that . |
| 21 | Recent work by Zeki ( 1983a , b ) shows that Land 's theory is of more than theoretical interest because cells in area V4 have properties compatible with it whereas cells in Vl do not . |
| 22 | John Major 's economic strategy is in more than tatters . |
| 23 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 24 | For patients , continued trust in the basis for their doctor 's decisions is worth more than the possibility of quicker access to elective surgery . |
| 25 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 26 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 27 | The matter is of more than passing scientific interest . |
| 28 | Try not to get pushed into this — your health is worth more than a few extra quid . |
| 29 | They will not complain if they believe that their property is worth more than the band in which it has been allocated . |
| 30 | When money is falling in value ( prices rising ) , borrowers gain at the expense of lenders because today 's money is worth more than tomorrow 's money . |