Example sentences of "[adv] more [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 2 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 4 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 5 | The march took many years , perhaps more than a century . |
| 6 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 7 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 8 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 9 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 10 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 11 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 12 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 13 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 14 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 15 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 16 | Before her was a narrow ledge , scarcely more than a metre wide . |
| 17 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 18 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 19 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 20 | Hardly more than a boy , in fact . |
| 21 | Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth . |
| 22 | It was not much of a town — hardly more than a village . |
| 23 | The girl who answered was just that — hardly more than a girl . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 29 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 30 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |