Example sentences of "[verb] more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters more than prior political involvement is how far Law Lords consciously or otherwise are influenced in their judgments by their own political opinions , how far this is avoidable and how far it is undesirable . |
| 2 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 3 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 4 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 5 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 6 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 7 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 8 | It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home . |
| 9 | Yeah mentally handicapped more than mentally sick . |
| 10 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 11 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 12 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 13 | It was hard to sound more than fairly enthusiastic . |
| 14 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 15 | Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns . |
| 16 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 17 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 18 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 19 | Quigley looked more than usually Christian . |
| 20 | However , securing organizational change and a move to more entrepreneurial strategies demanded more than ever political skills and access to political resources , and this led to a reversion to earlier patterns with the appointment in 1985 of a chairman closely linked to the PSOE . |
| 21 | Only one of Benjamin James 's children would prove more than usually difficult to communicate with as time went by : young Marwood James Henry , a strangely elusive character in many ways . |
| 22 | If hardware flow control is used , the Z88 will bring RTS low when the receive buffer becomes more than half full and bring RTS high when the receive buffer is less than a quarter full . |
| 23 | Research on conformity has shown that individuals with higher levels of ability conform less to group norms than those with lower levels of ability ; individuals with strong relationship goals will identify with group norms more readily than those individuals for whom multiple , close relationships are not important ; highly authoritarian individuals conform more than less authoritarian individuals ; individuals who find it hard to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ conform more readily than those who find it easy ; and individuals with strong structure goals conform more willingly . |
| 24 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 25 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |