Example sentences of "[det] more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 2 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 3 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 4 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 5 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 6 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 7 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 8 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 9 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 10 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 11 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |
| 12 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 13 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
| 14 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 15 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 16 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 17 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 18 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 19 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 20 | Sexuality involves much more than sexual intercourse . |
| 21 | But do n't expect much more than pompous doggerel in the words . |
| 22 | Some Whigs were implicated in Jacobite activities , amongst them John Wildman , Charles Mordaunt ( third Earl of Monmouth ) , the Earls of Dorset and Shrewsbury , and the Duke of Bolton , although whether we should see their alleged intrigues as much more than fire-insurance Jacobitism is unclear . |
| 23 | Many of the pubs which are passed off as ‘ historic ’ to the visitor and tourist prove to be only film-set facades on what are now little more than youthful amusement arcades or glorified fast-food cafes . |
| 24 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 25 | On one level the sudden and unexpected friendship thrives on little more than mutual back-scratching . |
| 26 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 27 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 28 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 29 | Hostess work in some of the clubs involved little more than chiselling money out of tourists for fake champagne , and the money that changed hands for street assignations almost invariably led to an instant disappearance with no follow-through . |
| 30 | Hospitals are developing computer systems which are often not compatible with one another and are being used as little more than expensive word processors . |