Example sentences of "[noun] to more than [art] " in BNC.

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1 But just let the poor little woman open her legs to more than the statutory one , and she 's cheap , a woman of easy virtue , a social outcast .
2 Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house .
3 But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients .
4 The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year .
5 The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year .
6 No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick .
7 The most usual method of sending out information to more than a few broadcasting stations or publications is by post .
8 Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences .
9 Their accession on July 22 to ASEAN 's Treaty of Amity and Co-Operation signalled an end to more than a decade of hostility between them and their non-communist neighbours .
10 One of the principal problems facing anglers fishing on Benbecula and the Uists , is knowing where to begin ; there are so many fine waters to choose from and never enough time to do proper justice to more than a handful .
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