Example sentences of "[adj] more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 3 | Lot 480 ( est $30,000–40,000 ) , ‘ The road — winter ’ , depicting Currier and his wife , brought $30,000 ( £21,428 ) , 8,000 more than another impression of the same print , in slightly poorer condition , made at Christie 's ( more pictures and results on page 31 ) . |
| 4 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 5 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 6 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 7 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 8 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 9 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 10 | After allowing for the community charge grant , which is now part of aggregate external finance , that is almost £300 million more than this year — an increase of 6.1 per cent . |