Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 2 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 3 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 4 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 5 | Leaders may personally benefit more than the led but all share in the spin-offs from competent leadership . |
| 6 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 7 | HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders . |
| 8 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 9 | This argument , which has been called ‘ the fair innings argument , ’ was summarised by Lockwood : ‘ To treat the older person , letting the younger person die , would thus be inherently inequitable in terms of life lived : the younger person would get no more years than the relatively few he has already had , whereas the older person , who has already had more than the younger person , will get several years more . ’ |
| 10 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 11 | Since the late 1950s , however , the importance of all of the above factors has diminished to the extent that , even taken together , they no longer offer more than a partial explanation for the restricted nature of Soviet — Latin American relations . |
| 12 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 13 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 15 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 16 | The basic structures of several pavilions have yet to be completed and the biggest universal exposition ever mounted still bears more than a passing resemblance to a building site — albeit a very colourful one . |
| 17 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 18 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 19 | The Government introduced the discredited poll tax , which cost an enormous amount to collect , so there is not much joy or credit if the new system still costs more than the original system . |
| 20 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 21 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 22 | Does that mean , the maximum of ten per cent , you would n't ever get more than the eleven hundred , or |
| 23 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 24 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 25 | If neural networks are ever to become more than a lab curiosity with the odd exotic application in the real world , Intel Corp 's new Ni1000 chip , developed with Providence , Rhode Island-based Nestor Inc should provide the breakthrough . |
| 26 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 27 | Still feeling more than a little unbalanced , she glanced back over her shoulder . |
| 28 | Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated . |
| 29 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 30 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |