Example sentences of "[det] than just [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His warning to the American President that he would support Native Americans ( ‘ Red Indians ’ , whom he presumes to be tribally organized ) against the federal government is consistent with his view that natural ties are more than just rational ones . |
| 2 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 3 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 4 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 6 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 7 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 8 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 9 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 10 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 11 | More than just extra officers and money , however , tackling Scotland 's new crime wave may require more imaginative solutions . |
| 12 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 13 | Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times . |
| 14 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 15 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 16 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 17 | But more than just physical damage had been incurred . |
| 18 | more than just physical reason I , I mean a lot of people are grossly overweight they , you know , people usually say oh it 's the |
| 19 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 20 | It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’ |
| 21 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He offers heartache loud and clear on songs that are more than just minor vehicles of angst . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 26 | Transactions that are more than just once-only exchanges can not be organized , therefore , by a long-term market contract , agreed at the outset , specifying terms appropriate to any future state of the world . |
| 27 | This is more than just instrumental self-aggrandizement , because this ‘ market forces ’ approach is an important ideological device in ‘ recommodification ’ , but the form of involvement is highly instrumental for many participants . |
| 28 | Somerset is more than just pretty scenery |
| 29 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |