Example sentences of "[vb pp] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 2 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 3 | The Lazio star , pictured left carrying a lot of extra poundage on his way to Rome two months ago , has shed more than a stone in weight since his £5.5million summer move from Tottenham — but he must wait a few more weeks before he returns to serious competition . |
| 4 | Irwin 's poem , it should be noted , was written more than a decade before Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ . |
| 5 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 6 | Many have seen more than a hint of Greek architecture about the Baroque façade . |
| 7 | Dr Williamson , a consultant from Southampton , is to head the new unit , for which South Durham people have already given more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 8 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 9 | But in the first of the new series , we 're offered more than a glimpse into his past , when we meet Susan Fallon . |
| 10 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 11 | John McEnroe tried to take out a copyright on it , Becker 's got more than a bit and Lendl 's goes missing when he most needs it . |
| 12 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 13 | The episode would never have become more than a statistic in a communique , but for the nationality of the victorious pilot ; Caporal Kiffin Rockwell of Asheville , North Carolina . |
| 14 | However , as discussed in Chapter 3 , this concept has become more than a description of a right accruing to all tenants . |
| 15 | ‘ Shakespeare ’ has become more than a collection of Renaissance texts and is now a site for wider cultural explorations and controversies . |
| 16 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 17 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 18 | North has also found that a similar escapement was known more than a century and a half later to Leonardo da Vinci . |
| 19 | The partially clothed body of Carol Clark was found more than a week ago . |
| 20 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 21 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 22 | I had n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 23 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been thrown more than a quarter of a mile . |
| 25 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 26 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 27 | Reaching agreement has taken more than a year as the machinery rings have continued to argue their case , backed by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society and the accountants Reeves and Neylan . |
| 28 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 29 | I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’ |
| 30 | Rachel , 25 , was last night described as ‘ still poorly ’ in the psychiatric unit of Broadgreen Hospital where she was admitted more than a week ago . |