Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle raised more than a few eyebrows when he took over at the County Ground last April . |
| 2 | From his universal nickname — Tenko — it will be surmised that Dennis demands more than a few laps of the pitch prior to a session in the pub . |
| 3 | As Defries had feared , neither Ace nor Bernice had more than a few minutes ’ more power in their blasters . |
| 4 | Few people in Japan expect Mr Gorbachev to make more than a few diplomatic utterances about the islands while in Tokyo . |
| 5 | In French literature lectures , Sartre became more than an academic discovery , though I understand only now why the idea that " the person is nothing else but his freedom " and the revelations of Nausea had such enormous appeal for me . |
| 6 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 7 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 8 | The voice of Bess of Hardwick can be heard ordering her household in Derby shire at the end of the sixteenth century , but less well-known women also make their appearance , including Mary-Ann , the dairymaid at Uppark in Sussex who captured the heart of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh , and Carolyn Workman , whose transfer from her father 's parsonage in Norfolk to the grandeur of The Vyne in Hampshire bears more than a passing resemblance to Fanny Price 's story in Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park . |
| 9 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 10 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 11 | Lear drew more than the short straw on the Birds of Europe . |
| 12 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the TARDIS , ’ Ace replied , with a smile in which Defries detected more than a hint of malicious enjoyment of her audience 's incomprehension . |
| 14 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 15 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 16 | Typically , he will cite the film All the President 's Men as one of liberal Hollywood 's morale-sapping strikes at US institutions without ever noticing that Richard Milhous Nixon managed more than a bit of subverting on his own account . |
| 17 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 18 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 19 | Italy required more than the current quota of 18,500 passes per month , but Austria sought the transfer of more Italian freight to the railways and other concessions . |
| 20 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 21 | Nor would Edwin concede more than a spineless encouragement that she be hopeful and humble in their work together . |
| 22 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 23 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 24 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 25 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 26 | Leith felt more than a bit dissatisfied with life when she went to bed that night . |
| 27 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 28 | The JD Tele costs more than the Squier Hank , but will it prove to be better ? |
| 29 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 30 | with the GDR proved more than the conservatives ' right wing could stomach . |