Example sentences of "[vb -s] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’
2 However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind .
3 However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name .
4 True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes .
5 He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies .
6 It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all .
7 I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual .
8 When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water .
9 Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it .
10 Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome .
11 The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it .
12 In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting .
13 He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American .
14 Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations .
15 A management which does not do this betrays more than the shareholders in the business ; it betrays the employees and the nation as a whole .
16 The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) .
17 Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile .
18 ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge …
19 Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums .
20 Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts .
21 The JD Tele costs more than the Squier Hank , but will it prove to be better ?
22 ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’
23 According to Bill Martin , economist at UBS-Phillips & Drew : ‘ The only thing the Chancellor fears more than the currency speculators are the rows of blue rinses at Blackpool next week ’ .
24 The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome .
25 The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry .
26 This means that the breeding cycle takes more than a year to complete , with the result that the birds are unable to breed every year .
27 It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him .
28 It takes more than a shoestring to keep an essential component of the economy strong , say the Met , and other institutions concur .
29 In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams .
30 By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover .
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