Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 2 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 3 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 4 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 5 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 6 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 7 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 8 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 9 | Gillis accepts , against the advice of his chair-bound agent ( Miranda Richardson ) , but soon discovers that there 's more than a movie at stake . |
| 10 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 11 | To begin with , there is more than a hint of circularity about Eccleshall 's definition of Conservatism . |
| 12 | There is more than a hint of desperation in this unlikely selection . |
| 13 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 14 | Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs . |
| 15 | There is more than a hint of Art Nouveau in its decoration . |
| 16 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 17 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 18 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 19 | However , there is more than a chance that Brewer will take over Gary 's role as captain , and Alan 's place on the blindside of the scrum . |
| 20 | If there is more than a certain amount , gravity will in due course draw the galaxies back together . |
| 21 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 22 | There is more than a hint of truth in what Alastair Hetherington , a former editor of The Guardian was told to explain how one defines news values : ‘ It 's like riding a bike ; if you stop to think about it , you 'll fall off . ’ |
| 23 | There is more than a touch of rags to riches in the story of the outsize barons . |
| 24 | There is more than a hint here of the subsequent legislation in restraint of alienation which was to result in the English statute of Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) . |
| 25 | Yet there is more than a simple , professional solution to an unusual but possible problem at sea . |
| 26 | There is more than a suspicion of zeugmatic tension when the end-items are yoked together : |
| 27 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 28 | ‘ There is more than a debt in it , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 29 | There is more than a little that is suspicious about a term which can be used in so many different contexts . |
| 30 | Just as there is a fundamental difference between ‘ equal opportunities ’ and ‘ girl-friendly ’ strategies , there is more than a semantic difference between non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives . |