Example sentences of "[vb base] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 2 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
| 3 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 4 | You deserve more than a medal . |
| 5 | Good luck , Mr Greer , you deserve more than a medal . |
| 6 | Today , of course , the process is mechanized ; four hundred razor-sharp cutting discs slice more than a yard of cloth in one swift pass . |
| 7 | The complex was rebuilt after a firebomb attack more than a year ago , and its owners certainly have made the most of the opportunity . |
| 8 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 9 | Well , I , I wan na go skiing as well , so you get more than a day trip . |
| 10 | But the community care reforms imply more than a shift in the location of care . |
| 11 | We lack more than a will , and a needed oblivion ; we lack even the starting point of identity : a name . |
| 12 | the pundits reckon more than a £100,000 resting on the Pall mall alone . |
| 13 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 14 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 15 | Glancing back through what I have written so far , I detect more than a note of cynicism . |
| 16 | Many spreadsheet users never use more than a mono text mode display ! |
| 17 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 18 | One resident said : ‘ We could hear the music and we live more than a mile away . |
| 19 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
| 20 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 21 | So if you 've more than a mite of sense you 'll point your base somewheres else . |
| 22 | Cars , trucks , planes and boats currently contribute more than a quarter of the annual greenhouse gases worldwide , a percentage that is likely to increase . |
| 23 | Intelligent music lovers require more than a pout from Simon Le Bon or a wiggle or is it a riddle from Nik Kershaw . |
| 24 | One of the first companies to realise travellers need more than a ticket . |
| 25 | The countryside is there for us all to enjoy , so please , those of you who are responsible for making it accessible , remember those who , like me , need more than a kissing gate to get in . ’ |
| 26 | You need more than a bowl of water to solve your , to salve your conscience and to , and to be free from innocent blood . |
| 27 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 28 | ‘ And you , no doubt , have more than a modicum ! ’ she snapped , infuriated by his bland arrogance . |
| 29 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 30 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |