Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 2 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 3 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |
| 4 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 5 | Glenn Hoddle raised more than a few eyebrows when he took over at the County Ground last April . |
| 6 | the pundits reckon more than a £100,000 resting on the Pall mall alone . |
| 7 | From his universal nickname — Tenko — it will be surmised that Dennis demands more than a few laps of the pitch prior to a session in the pub . |
| 8 | Fired by religious fervour and armed with weapons supplied by the United States and their Muslim neighbour Pakistan , the rebels resisted doggedly and fought a war in which their superior mobility and unconventional guerrilla tactics proved more than a match for the Soviet military machine . |
| 9 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 10 | The Abbots united for the inevitable photograph bear more than a passing resemblance to a sports team . |
| 11 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 12 | As Defries had feared , neither Ace nor Bernice had more than a few minutes ’ more power in their blasters . |
| 13 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 14 | Few people in Japan expect Mr Gorbachev to make more than a few diplomatic utterances about the islands while in Tokyo . |
| 15 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 16 | The symbolic value of law involves more than a volitional commitment to legal institutions and legal process , or the rhetorical effectiveness of international law arguments . |
| 17 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 18 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 19 | The voice of Bess of Hardwick can be heard ordering her household in Derby shire at the end of the sixteenth century , but less well-known women also make their appearance , including Mary-Ann , the dairymaid at Uppark in Sussex who captured the heart of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh , and Carolyn Workman , whose transfer from her father 's parsonage in Norfolk to the grandeur of The Vyne in Hampshire bears more than a passing resemblance to Fanny Price 's story in Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park . |
| 20 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 21 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 22 | Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player . |
| 23 | Control of factors such as resistance to change and propensity to take more than a fair share of the spoils must be exercised at national and international levels . |
| 24 | In the Netherlands , the task of refining and extending the revolutionary concept of the Woonerf and separately applying its most valuable elements continues more than a decade after its inception . |
| 25 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 26 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 27 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 28 | The results for those universities producing more than a total of 10 theses on Scottish geology between 1960 and 1983 are shown ranked as Table 5 — Changes in proportion of Scottish geology theses with time . |
| 29 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 30 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |