Example sentences of "[noun] have more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As Defries had feared , neither Ace nor Bernice had more than a few minutes ’ more power in their blasters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The message is that all staff of an institution have more than an ‘ academic ’ interest in the activities of staff in other departments . |
| 7 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 8 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 11 | Er , whether they , a different government would legislate erm , against people having more than a twenty percent stake in er , B Sky B for instance remains to be seen . |
| 12 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 13 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 14 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 15 | I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage . |
| 16 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 17 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 18 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 19 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
| 20 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 21 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 22 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 23 | Five percent of the mothers in the survey had more than the international limit of 350 micrograms of lead in every litre of blood in their bodies . |
| 24 | And even though the same scientists were involved in that experimentation , Rohmer could not resist a kind of immature pride in the fact that his unit had more than the others . |
| 25 | Inner cities have more than a proportionate share of social problems . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |