Example sentences of "[verb] more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 2 | Both garments are quite windproof but the jacket needs more than thermal underwear under it in wild weather . |
| 3 | ‘ I want more than physical love ! ’ she told him baldly . |
| 4 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 5 | To be happy and settled in a winning province is therefore very important to the top players and for once this may count more than attractive job offers and other benefits . |
| 6 | Lewis 's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered , punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing . |
| 7 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 8 | There is also the diversion of a county programme in the North and West , where the competition still has more than passing meaning . |
| 9 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 10 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 11 | Not all the songs played during the evening hailed from the album with the set already suggesting Eddi has more than enough material to record and release another album at fairly short notice . |
| 12 | The parallel with studying music has more than structural significance . |
| 13 | Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets |
| 14 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 15 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 16 | That way , any bets taken could be put in a bank or something and earn more than enough interest to pay out the sad scum twat who made the bet . |
| 17 | For this reason few receive more than local news coverage . |
| 18 | ANEW portrait of Jesse Jackson , showing him as a blond , blue-eyed white man , attracted more than aesthetic interest when it was displayed on a Washington street corner last Wednesday . |
| 19 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 20 | The combination of tight money and high debt is causing more than token distress . |
| 21 | Here you simply ensure that the mechanical linkage will give more than sufficient control and then adjust the radio transmitter in suit . |
| 22 | His record pay-off cost more than this year 's dividends to all the shareholders in Murdoch 's News International company . |
| 23 | The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management . |
| 24 | For once his ‘ soon and very soon ’ seemed more than empty optimism . |
| 25 | In this book space prevents us from paying more than cursory attention to the whole area of upper-world crime . |
| 26 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 27 | Valerie Jones made her excuses and left — she had had more than enough coffee . |
| 28 | Consequently she has had more than enough practice at fielding some of the more banal of my questions . |
| 29 | He 'd had more than enough practice to become an expert . |
| 30 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |