Example sentences of "[adj] more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 2 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 4 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 5 | Though the rich spend much more than the poor on health care , the poor spend a much greater proportion of their income ( about 5% v 2% ) . |
| 6 | They should be much more than the over-all journey broken down into smaller sections . |
| 7 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 8 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 9 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 10 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 11 | Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force . |
| 12 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 13 | It proposed a shot-gun marriage between two parties who , so far from having anticipated the bliss of that honourable estate , had ventured nothing much more than the frozen smile of recognition that passes for politeness between opponents who see in one another much to dislike and little to love . |
| 14 | ( g ) Skipp is to be treated as a case where " there was much more than the mere consent of the owner . |
| 15 | Halifax Property Services offer much more than the traditional role of the estate agent . |
| 16 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 17 | The reinstatement was thorough , taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate . |
| 18 | With earnings of £188 per week ( Nov. 1984 figures ) , the family would have a disposable income ( after tax , national insurance and mortgage and typical rate payments , but including child benefit ) of £89 per week : this is not much more than the Supplementary Benefit Long-term Scale Rate for that family of £76 per week at that time . |
| 19 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
| 20 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 22 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 23 | UPJOHN , the maker of the controversial injectable contraceptive , Depo-Provera faces much more than the unspecified objections of health minister , Kenneth Clarke , if it is to reverse Clarke 's decision to ban the use of the drug as a long-term contraceptive in Britain . |
| 24 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 25 | The first day 's publication of the photos produced an incredible increase in sales of 482,118 more than the same day the week before . |
| 26 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 27 | Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number . |
| 28 | No sooner was he in the sport than he was already scheming to make his first million ; he has never stopped scheming since , to make many more than the first . |
| 29 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 30 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |