Example sentences of "[verb] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 2 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 3 | The Lazio star , pictured left carrying a lot of extra poundage on his way to Rome two months ago , has shed more than a stone in weight since his £5.5million summer move from Tottenham — but he must wait a few more weeks before he returns to serious competition . |
| 4 | Irwin 's poem , it should be noted , was written more than a decade before Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ . |
| 5 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 6 | Many have seen more than a hint of Greek architecture about the Baroque façade . |
| 7 | So that had rather er I mean that made er made it 's not big potatoes , but it made more than a year ago and there were small movements on provision adjustments . |
| 8 | Dr Williamson , a consultant from Southampton , is to head the new unit , for which South Durham people have already given more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 9 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 10 | But in the first of the new series , we 're offered more than a glimpse into his past , when we meet Susan Fallon . |
| 11 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 12 | John McEnroe tried to take out a copyright on it , Becker 's got more than a bit and Lendl 's goes missing when he most needs it . |
| 13 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 14 | The episode would never have become more than a statistic in a communique , but for the nationality of the victorious pilot ; Caporal Kiffin Rockwell of Asheville , North Carolina . |
| 15 | However , as discussed in Chapter 3 , this concept has become more than a description of a right accruing to all tenants . |
| 16 | ‘ Shakespeare ’ has become more than a collection of Renaissance texts and is now a site for wider cultural explorations and controversies . |
| 17 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 18 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 19 | North has also found that a similar escapement was known more than a century and a half later to Leonardo da Vinci . |
| 20 | He never hit more than a 1-iron off the tee . |
| 21 | The partially clothed body of Carol Clark was found more than a week ago . |
| 22 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 23 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 24 | At the end of the same year an unofficial foreign affairs committee was formed within the ruling Liberal party to mobilise public opinion in favour of fuller discussion of foreign policy in parliament , though it never represented more than a minority of Liberal members . |
| 25 | I had n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 26 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 27 | ‘ It must have been thrown more than a quarter of a mile . |
| 28 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 29 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 30 | Reaching agreement has taken more than a year as the machinery rings have continued to argue their case , backed by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society and the accountants Reeves and Neylan . |