Example sentences of "[is] [adv] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 2 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 3 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 4 | To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age . |
| 5 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 6 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 7 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 8 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 9 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 10 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 11 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 12 | Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them . |
| 13 | For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels . |
| 14 | Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in . |
| 15 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 16 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 17 | There is ostensibly more than a passing similarity between Gedge and another famed Mancunian bedroom termite , Morrissey . |
| 18 | This is slightly more than the distance that most pilots would like for a spot landing at the gliding site because you need a little more time for the approach in a strange place . |
| 19 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 20 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 22 | The Brian Nelson affair and the other cases have shown that it is often more than a perception . |
| 23 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 24 | In simple terms , skin is far more than a superficial covering for the body ; it is a living , breathing organism . |
| 25 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 26 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 27 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 28 | That is far more than the $100 billion of fresh cash the government must raise each year to cover the deficit , which already provokes alarm . |
| 29 | The difference in quality produced by different papers is far more than the difference in quality between the machines tested — by a mile ! |
| 30 | An implant is far more than the simple visual component . ’ |