Example sentences of "[adv] more [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 2 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
| 3 | The dog 's big dish was still more than half full . |
| 4 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
| 5 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
| 6 | Motivated by rather more than just military considerations , the EFA was an exercise in European unity , and was governed by the need to give a ‘ fair share ’ of the contracts to each of the participating countries . |
| 7 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 8 | We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you see , it is now more than ever that practising politicians need the help of disinterested trained historians |
| 10 | The bottle , once full , was now more than half empty . |
| 11 | This record is a kind of respect-is-due gesture — a splurge of celeb guests , a handful of Jimenez relatives and a smattering of loopy polkas to show Flaco off as more than just another name on the studio credits . |
| 12 | Their lives were far more than just hard . |
| 13 | The American influences on English Nonconformity were far more than just catchy songs , the taking of collections during services , ‘ American organs ’ and individual communion cups . |
| 14 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 15 | But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage . |
| 16 | These structural proteins are coded for by more orthodox ‘ late genes ’ ; all that the early genes themselves do is ensure the synthesis of a group of intermediate signal proteins , rejoicing in even more than usually barbaric names ( c-fos and c-jun ) . |
| 17 | YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising . |
| 18 | YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising . |
| 19 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 20 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 21 | Otherwise more than c. 20 in one winter is most exceptional , and single birds are quite usual . |
| 22 | Most of us do not find it easy to imagine our futures and it is extremely rare to meet an individual capable of projecting himself mentally more than about five years ahead . |
| 23 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 24 | It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export led rather than led by domestic consumption . |
| 25 | It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export-led rather than led by domestic consumption . |
| 26 | It is therefore more than ever essential that we modulate our human scale through all the new processes of social order that are about to dawn . |