Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 2 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 3 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 4 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 5 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 6 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 7 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 8 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
| 9 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 10 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 11 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 12 | If cells from the region of the early embryo that will normally give rise to the eye are grafted into the region that will form the gut the cells do not form an eye any more but just part of the gut . |
| 13 | The jet crashed in a ball of flame , destroying 15 cars and damaging 10 more but further evidence of the good fortune became clear yesterday with the sight of the aircraft wreckage embedded in mud . |