Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
| 2 | The sheep are not much more than the primroses . |
| 3 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
| 4 | I wanted a pay rise because I found out I was way behind most of the first-team lads and barely on much more than the apprentices ' wages . |
| 5 | Healthy eating is about much more than the kinds of food we eat . |
| 6 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 7 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 8 | In one way , they represent little more than the attempts of established disciplines to retain market share in a situation of academic and economic scarcity . |
| 9 | For such a one to throw up his job , sell his house and come to Britain with little more than the proceeds of sale in his pocket , in order to start his own business from scratch in an unfamiliar environment , would seem , the height of folly . |
| 10 | Each child had one pair of all-purpose shoes but often there was little more than the uppers remaining . |
| 11 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 12 | In practice , the employment was seasonal and ill-paid , covering little more than the necessities of life . |
| 13 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |
| 14 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 15 | And for gentlemen , for men of property , the idea that the unpropertied working class should be represented in Parliament simply could not arise , any more than the reformers , with few exceptions , could enter into the minds of working people or sympathise with the political aspirations of their leaders . |
| 16 | They can not and will not in 1986 any more than the unions could or would in 1979 . |
| 17 | By the outbreak of war , the party had 287 MPs , thirty more than the Liberals and almost as many as the combined Liberal-Labour vote . |
| 18 | The findings show that Labour would win 76 seats from the Conservatives , giving them 305 seats overall , six or seven more than the Tories , but 21 short of an overall majority , with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power . |