Example sentences of "[v-ing] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 32 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 33 | Ebullient in character , a Nobel laureate retaining more than a touch of the New York kid , Feynman is keenly interested in teaching physics as well as creating it . |
| 34 | Plus he 's English , which is very important in European games when the UEFA ruling prevents you from fielding more than a couple of non-nationals . |
| 35 | In a deal that will create America 's second-largest coal company and second-largest copper firm , Cyprus Minerals is paying between $1 billion and $1.4 billion , and assuming more than a $1 billion in debt , for loss-making Amax . |
| 36 | Wearing the latest active weekend wear from Debenhams — the perfect survival kit for every man 's wardrobe — they prove that sporting more than a dash of style is no sweat . |
| 37 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 38 | We 've got five weeks discouraged from taking more than a fortnight at a time . |
| 39 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 40 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 41 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 42 | If you 're casting more than a couple of rod-lengths it 's advisable to use a waggler if only to avoid tangles . |
| 43 | He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself . |
| 44 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 45 | In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives . |
| 46 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
| 47 | The target beneficiary was the salaried ‘ family man ’ who , by reason of earning more than the £250 limit applied to non-manual workers , was excluded from participation in the new 1925 contributory state scheme , under which a retirement pension became payable at 65 and a modest pension became available to widows of any age ( Groves , 1983 , p. 41 ) . |
| 48 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 49 | ACTRESS Lesley-Anne Down is planning more than a kiss under the mistletoe this Christmas . |
| 50 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 51 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 52 | This remake of Jackie Mittoo 's Studio One organ classic is typical of current Taxi fare : subtle , gently rocking , and offering more than a nod to rocksteady , right down to the drum fills probably sampled from the original version . |
| 53 | From the point of view of the ‘ host ’ or ‘ hostess ’ the most immediate benefit of showing art would be to enhance a pleasant ambience , but the more ambitious would also be seeking to attract a certain clientele by offering more than the comfort of food . |
| 54 | By then Leith was feeling more than a shade guilty that she was the one responsible for the two having met . |
| 55 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 56 | ‘ But , ’ Leith cut in this time , feeling more than a trifle puzzled , ‘ if you have n't told anyone about Rosemary , which must mean you have n't told anyone where she lives , how on earth did your cousin know where to look ? ’ |
| 57 | Jack Schofield on a company feeling more than the pinch of a weak US economy IBM in a downsizing squeeze . |