Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body .
2 It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest .
3 The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints .
4 Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest .
5 Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps .
6 The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do .
7 We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence .
8 Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath .
9 Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood .
10 So two satisfied customers then … vegetarianism at this school looks set to be the dish of the day for more than just National Vegetarian Week .
11 This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis .
12 It is not possible to forecast in more than very general terms what the job opportunities will be in three or four years ' time .
13 The researchers demonstrated that there is a physiological plasma/milk barrier against fluoride which protects the infant from more than extremely low concentrations of the halogen .
14 Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs .
15 However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability .
16 It requires a wider view of both the sources of control and the contexts in which they operate , and must be applicable to more than just male working-class crime .
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