Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 2 | A spokesman said staff only inflated a few hundred but then hurriedly blew up some more when bad weather forced the cancellation of the fly-past . |
| 3 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 4 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 5 | Nobody rails against this more than environmental groups . |
| 6 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 7 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 8 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 9 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 10 | Ions are deflected according to : a ) mass — lighter ions are deflected more than heavier ions b ) charge — 2 ions are deflected much more than 1 ions . |
| 11 | Making allowances for variations in people 's familiarity with each type of credit ( judged by how often they applied any labels to each type ) , some types of credit were labelled as expensive much more than other types . |
| 12 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 14 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 15 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |
| 16 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 17 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
| 18 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 19 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 20 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 21 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 22 | Yet body language often tells us so much more than mere words . |
| 23 | Yet modern Japan is also the product of much more than recent upheavals . |
| 24 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid my cooking does n't extend to much more than scrambled eggs or sardines on toast , ’ said Julia , feeling thoroughly useless . |
| 26 | But the most important point is that very often auditors are required to do much more than express opinions on financial statements , in the public sector in general and in government particularly . |
| 27 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |
| 28 | Fat women risk so much more than thin women when starting a sexual relationship , because we are taught that we are not capable of inspiring love or lust : we have forfeited the right to be sexual because our bodies are incompatible with desire . |
| 29 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 30 | Sexuality involves much more than sexual intercourse . |