Example sentences of "[adv] more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in Romania ( and thus sharing part of Leonard 's eastern European background ) , transferred by his parents to Canada in the harsh years of the early century , he represents , perhaps more than any other , not the genteel ‘ English ’ background common to many of his fellow-workers , but a rough , raw Canadian view that is intensely patriotic , proletarian , passionate and pure . |
| 2 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 3 | It was this aspect of Althusserian theory , perhaps more than any other , that led many orthodox Marxists to consider that Althusser was not really a Marxist at all . |
| 4 | TRADITIONAL MUSIC , perhaps more than any other , is a music of intimacy , its strength lies in its informality — that marvellous drop-of-a-hat feeling where a session can occur as if by spontaneous combustion — whereupon stylistic and generational gaps are forgotten , consigned to the four winds , as tunes and songs from other times draw both practitioner and casual listener alike into their seductive glow . |
| 5 | And in religious communities , perhaps more than any other , the experiences and perceptions of the insider will contrast with those of the outsider . |
| 6 | This is the background to the event which perhaps more than any other has fuelled the arguments that the Soviet Union has ‘ expansionist ’ designs on Latin America which can only be countered by US strength . |
| 7 | More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ . |
| 8 | The deal is startlingly altruistic , and the racetrack owners are always generous with their political contributions ; but Arizona 's Republican governor , Fife Symington , thinks there is already more than enough gambling in his state . |
| 9 | This fact , probably more than any other , has caused homoeopathy to be viewed with considerable scepticism by the orthodox ‘ scientific ’ medical profession . |
| 10 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 11 | It was a little less than half enquiry , and a little more than half assertion . |
| 12 | Ronald Wright 's re-telling of the fate of the indigenous people is far more than another manifestation of the popular pastime of Columbus-bashing designed to ensure that this year 's quincentennial celebrations should be suitably controversial . |
| 13 | To the north and south of the town , gripping it along three quarters of its circuit , lay nearly eleven hundred acres of open fields , far more than enough land for housing the new industrial population . |
| 14 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |
| 15 | He 'd felt the anger and the bitterness of the woman — far more than any sense of anguish or loss . |
| 16 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 17 | Even more than most movie men the comedians were men of the people and they sensed what the masses wanted . |
| 18 | THE RENEWED interest in country rock obscures the fact that , almost more than any other , this feels timeless — a strain of white urban soul . |