Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 2 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 3 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 4 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 5 | The crucial distinction between the residual and the institutional model is that , in the latter , the state accepts responsibility for the provision of rather more than a basic minimum . |
| 6 | Preparations were set in hand for a major effort on the Left Bank on March 6th , for which a new Army Corps , the VI Reserve , was earmarked ( representing , in terms of manpower , an outlay of rather more than the reserves Falkenhayn had withheld in February ) . |
| 7 | The new psychologies of hypnotic suggestion and " creative visualization " are increasingly aware that we are capable of infinitely more than the assumed constraints of " physical laws " on our bodies and minds would have us believe . |
| 8 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 9 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 10 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 12 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |
| 13 | Value for far more than the length and a half he beat Grand Applause there , he will relish the step up in trip for the Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes . |
| 14 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |
| 15 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 16 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 17 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 18 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 19 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 20 | The first telephone call Derek Fairfax received after reaching the office on Wednesday proved what he had begun to suspect : that the death of Maurice Abberley amounted to rather more than the newspapers had revealed . |
| 21 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 22 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 23 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 24 | SECRET tax concessions offered to British Aerospace to secure the sale of the Rover Group could take the ‘ hidden sweeteners ’ involved in the deal to substantially more than the £48 million already uncovered , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 25 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |
| 26 | Four judges then tried to match the reported dreams with the topics , identifying between 5 and 9 of the 29 target suggestions , at barely more than a chance rate . |
| 27 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |
| 28 | Charles outlived him by hardly more than a year : his life was thus in a sense overshadowed by Louis , constantly subject to fraternal political pressure , his kingdom twice fraternally-invaded , his ultimate imperial plans beset by fraternal rivalry . |
| 29 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 30 | More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) . |