Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more than the " in BNC.

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1 Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) .
2 Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below .
3 The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular .
4 Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect .
5 Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others .
6 and far too late for more than the corpse stopped
7 It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon .
8 But Schatzman 's point , like my own , is concerned with more than the ‘ physicalistic ’ character of speech heard or overheard in childhood .
9 The husband who bought them to placate her may not be aware of more than the fact that they are red ( the wife too , come to think of it , if she was only signalling forgiveness ) .
10 Similarly , if I treat someone 's urgent need of money solely as an opportunity to buy cheap from him , you may well doubt whether I am aware of more than the fact that he is in trouble , and try to rouse me from my callousness : ‘ How would you feel if I did that to you ? ’
11 In your sexual relations with other people , you need to be aware of more than the behavioural aspects .
12 The full basic pension for a man or woman ( April 1992/93 ) is £54.15 a week , £86.70 for a married couple ( unless your spouse is entitled to more than the £32.55 spouse 's addition on his/her own contributions , in which case you will receive more ) .
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