Example sentences of "[conj] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 2 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 3 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 4 | With risers of nor more than a foot , it will put more interest into the garden than twice the planting in the plain . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 7 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 8 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 9 | ALTHOUGH more than a week has passed since Hanson bought 2.82% of Britain 's ICI , the only certainty about that stake is that the world 's fourth-largest chemicals company will never be the same again . |
| 10 | For our students the total number of units required is 16 , and although more than the minimum 12 necessary to gain the award of a Higher National Certificate , this is considered necessary for FT students who do not have the benefit of on-going industrial experience . |
| 11 | If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method . |
| 12 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 13 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 14 | This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory . |
| 15 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 16 | Kate , hurt and more than a bit shattered under his look of acute dislike , felt she had to try to justify her actions . |
| 17 | I 've been a fool and more than a fool . |
| 18 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 19 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 20 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 21 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 22 | Leith supposed she must still be feeling shaken at being grabbed at by Alec Ardis , and more than a touch bruised by her dismissal , and the unfairness of it . |
| 23 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 24 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 25 | They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation . |
| 26 | More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings . |
| 27 | ‘ Out , ’ said Edwards with a nerve sharpened by cold and more than an hour in the company of Mrs Kathy Grogan . |
| 28 | I simply do not know , at least not if the properties are to be non-trivial , and more than an acceptance of certain machines into the category of human beings by fiat or polite convention . |
| 29 | ( Note : Bundles will be required for the court , the witness and all parties. ) ( 4 ) That a sketch plan be prepared ( especially in road accident cases ; if more than a sketch plan is needed it should be asked for , or there may be a costs penalty in default ( Ord 38 , r 10 ) ) . |
| 30 | But more than a change of personalities was complicating the American assessment of the relationship with the British at this time . |