Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 2 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 3 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
| 4 | ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
| 6 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 7 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 8 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |
| 10 | Yet Morley was much more than an imitator ; he was a more gifted melodist than Gastoldi . |
| 11 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 12 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
| 13 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 14 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 15 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 16 | Until last month this was little more than an expression of good intentions . |
| 17 | Campeanu walked with his head down , deep in thought as he plunged into a dark narrow back street which was little more than an alley . |
| 18 | With an air of picturesque decay , the street , little more than an alley , lay dusty and deserted , well away from the tourist area . |
| 19 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 20 | Unless there is regular guidance given to parents through workshops and school produced booklets the arrival home of the reading book will be seen as little more than an opportunity to check when the teacher last heard their child read and a chance to rush their child to the next stage on the reading scheme . |
| 21 | This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls . |
| 22 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 23 | The second game in the three-match one-day series , reduced from four after the first was downgraded to a friendly , was suspended after little more than an hour 's play . |
| 24 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 25 | She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’ |
| 26 | Father had said Cornwall might be different and in little more than an hour , how different it was . |
| 27 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 28 | At best they furnish little more than an outline guide to the interpretation of the numerical data , a hint of the kind of hypothesis that needs to be tested . |
| 29 | Indeed , I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage , any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence . |
| 30 | But while the telephone itself remains little more than an instrument for reproducing speech and other sounds at a distance , over the last decade we have seen dramatic growth in the availability and use of computers , modems and fax to transmit documentary and computerised information over the telephone network . |