Example sentences of "[vb past] more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 2 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 3 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 4 | Quigley looked more than usually Christian . |
| 5 | However , securing organizational change and a move to more entrepreneurial strategies demanded more than ever political skills and access to political resources , and this led to a reversion to earlier patterns with the appointment in 1985 of a chairman closely linked to the PSOE . |