Example sentences of "[adj] than just [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
2 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
3 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
4 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
5 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
6 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
7 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
8 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
9 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
10 | You now offer a lot more than just negotiations on pay . |
11 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
12 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
13 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
14 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
15 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
16 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
17 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
18 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |