Example sentences of "[art] more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more than generous amount of RAM you have fitted with not influence graphics performance . |
| 2 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 3 | In the process , it regularly encounters regions where space contains a more than usual amount of matter in the form of gas , dust and other debris . |
| 4 | She was a more than competent shorthand typist and an efficient secretary . |
| 5 | Cousteau , barely in his twenties , was a happy-go-lucky youngster , always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman . |
| 6 | Table I shows that 20% of infants in group A had at least one imaging study whereas 61% in group B had such studies , a more than threefold increase ( χ 2 =70.5 , p<0.001 ( 0.3 to 0.5 ) ) . |
| 7 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 8 | If England can get around 300 , it will turn out to be a more than useful total on a pitch already taking spin and starting to crumble . |
| 9 | Ndeti is also a more than useful athlete . |
| 10 | John Gallagher , meanwhile , proved a more than useful stand-in for Grant Fox in the goal-kicking role , missing the sticks just once . |
| 11 | In all departments last night , Villa looked a more than useful side . |
| 12 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 13 | He wore a plaid plus-fours suit over a more than ample frame . |
| 14 | For the translator this is a more than peripheral inconvenience ; the problem of necessary losses and possible compensations , a problem attendant on all translations , begins , in the particular case of Horace , with the poem 's rhythms . |
| 15 | Wherever it was , they have always had a more than casual fascination for me , and when I read Patrick Leigh-Fermor 's splendid books recounting his year-long walk down the Rhine and along the Danube , those childish fantasies resurfaced like long-forgotten toys rediscovered . |
| 16 | The zeal does not always survive the pedestrian management structures of local government , and perhaps it takes a more than ordinary enthusiasm to persist after the efforts of economizing councillors under pressure to do something about the rates . |
| 17 | activities involving ‘ a more than ordinary risk of accidents or a risk of more than ordinary damage if accidents in fact result ’ — as a basis for future development of the law . |
| 18 | The prayer was answered and , says John , ‘ he had all his lifetime after a more than ordinary fear of God and His presence ’ . |
| 19 | I think I had the average child 's thirst for blood and a more than average thirst for romance . |
| 20 | If a more than reasonable time has elapsed since the engrossed conveyance or transfer was submitted for execution by the husband , then the steps set out in Chapter 8 are a guide as to the procedure to be followed before application is made to the court asking the court to execute the conveyance or transfer on behalf of the husband . |
| 21 | THERE are few guarantees in politics but it is a more than reasonable bet that John Major and Bill Clinton will both be smiling and behaving as if they are buddies when they give a press conference at the White House tomorrow afternoon . |
| 22 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 23 | Using a small amount of 32 P in an Eppendorf tube we found beta-count rates of 253.010±496 and 83.4±2.6 ( n= 5 , p<0.001 ) without and with the Eppendorf protector , a more than 3000-fold reduction . |
| 24 | Michael Smyth , a more than capable full-back , suffered from the weight of expectation brought about by that massive £25,000 price tag . |
| 25 | In fact the actor , who reassures fans that he has no plans to quit 90210 now that his movie career is under way , has a more than healthy respect for the opposite sex — a lot of it born out of his admiration at how his mother struggled through during the dark early years of his life . |
| 26 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 27 | Unlike Princess Julie , the rest of the family spent their time in repeating malicious gossip about Eugénie 's past life , hinting that she had a more than dubious reputation , but their attitude in no way influenced the Emperor , except perhaps in a contrary sense . |
| 28 | A real page-turner , with a more than satisfying conclusion . |
| 29 | We began a more than modest tour in Buxton in October 1940 and continued touring all over the country , with occasional visits to the Prince 's Theatre or the New Theatre [ now the Albery ] in London , until the war ended . |
| 30 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |