Example sentences of "[noun] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Drinkell , 29 , became Coventry City 's record signing yesterday when his transfer from Rangers cost £800,000 — £20,000 more than the fee paid in 1987 to Chelsea for David Speedie . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 3 | THE sum of the parts is sometimes worth a good deal more than the whole . |
| 4 | Economic globalization implies a great deal more than the development of extensive trade links . |
| 5 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 6 | Many garden centres offer a great deal more than the stock range of houseplants , I have seen unusual specimens like daturas laden with superbly scented flowers , anthuriums ( aptly named the flamingo flower ) , streptocarpus , the new pot gerberas ( huge flowers in fabulous colours ) and the much improved New Guinea hybrid impatiens . |
| 7 | For Guinnessness and Irishness go hand in hand , or glass in hand , and mean a good deal more than an island of soft green hues and a drink that 's a subtle black and white . |
| 8 | Jo and Tina were chauffeured every day to a small exclusive private school for the cosseted daughters of those Bel Air families who valued high moral standards and hard work more than the pretence of being regular folks . |
| 9 | He eventually offered Richard £10 more than the asking price . |
| 10 | The System 15000 , due for delivery by the end of the year , will sell at around £10,000 more than a base 10000 system . |
| 11 | For example , supposing your estate is worth £10,000 more than the tax threshold . |
| 12 | And the number of visitors has grown dramatically , from 4m in 1987 to 5.1m in 1990 to 6.3m in 1992 — astonishingly , nearly 2m more than the Met . |
| 13 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 14 | No , you could con twenty percent more than the barn that was existing |
| 15 | They need about £500,000 more than the £1.35m the council has offered . |
| 16 | Thus the heading now being held is 5° less , or 5° more than the heading required to hold the centre line ( the track ) . |
| 17 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 18 | Forty one per head more than the average of all comparable Authorities . |
| 19 | was wanting each other more than the rest |
| 20 | He points out that this was about 5% more than the level of performance during the years 1988 to 1990 . |
| 21 | £350 million needs to be spent by the Council by the year 2000 to ensure that it meets its statutory responsibilities — this is £165 million , or 90% more than the level of investment allocation likely to be approved by the Scottish Office in this period . |
| 22 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 23 | That 's a bit more than the others , so keep stumm about it . ’ |
| 24 | When Chelsea wanted a bit more than the £2.5million United offered for Andy Townsend , the club pulled out of the deal . |
| 25 | It takes a bit more than the tuppence for paper and string which contented the children in Mary Poppins to make one of these . |
| 26 | Like the Duchess of Argyll , you sense she is not au fait with the basic tenets of a tea bag , and , loyal souls though they may be , finds her live-in staff more than a trial . |
| 27 | I 've told you , we ca n't afford a penny more than the asking price . ’ |
| 28 | But it weighed 8oz more than the Texas , it had a battery life roughly the same length as a Madonna video and it had no inverted T for the cursors . |
| 29 | It 's much the same attitude that meant Darlington fans at Torquay last Saturday had to pay £6 to stand behind the goal , a quid more than the home crowd . |
| 30 | People retiring now are likely to have an occupational pension on top of their state pension and the average income of pensioners rose by 31% more than the rate of inflation between 1979 and 1987 . |