Example sentences of "more than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 62 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 63 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 64 | This is the electro-acoustic version of the SW213 and retails for £20 more than the standard model . |
| 65 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
| 66 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
| 67 | He strained his eyes but could make out no more than the vague outline of Ngo Van Loc 's face in the darkness . |
| 68 | It is well known that the volatile Nowozielski has had more than the normal share of ups and downs with the notoriously conservative Board of the Lyric . |
| 69 | He needed far more than the normal ration of two parents , each with only one identity apiece . |
| 70 | Neither will it cost you any more than the normal variable scheme . |
| 71 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 72 | The world still spends more than $1,000 billion per year on arms — more than the total income of one half of the world 's population . |
| 73 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 74 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 75 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 76 | If overall losses are estimated at 1000 kg per ha per year , then the 20–25 million ha under shifting cultivation or permanent conversion from forest to other uses , generate more than the total nitrogen delivered by rivers to the oceans . |
| 77 | This meant that nearly all packs would contain more than the declared weight . |
| 78 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 79 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 80 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 81 | The final figure was , in fact , no more than the appreciated sum of what Union Carbide had originally offered in 1986 ! |
| 82 | Should we take the remark as more than the reflex perversity of a man who dreamed of Egypt while in Normandy , and of Normandy while in Egypt ? |
| 83 | The weak intensity is caused by upward continuation through the mantle : the small-scale non-dipolar transition field is attenuated far more than the axial dipole . |
| 84 | These true eels never colour up more than the dull grey/green of the juvenile specimens . |
| 85 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 86 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 87 | Two million people drink water containing more than the European Commission 's Maximum Admissible Concentration ( MAC ) of aluminium , which is increasingly believed to cause Alzheimer 's disease ( incurable dementia ) . |
| 88 | As a result , the individual may retain only a very small percentage of the extra income earned and , in some cases , may actually lose more than the extra income earned . |
| 89 | When a car drives slowly into her taxi , stationary at a traffic-clogged crossroads , it is more than the stupid accident it would be in London , New York or Sydney . |
| 90 | The fundamental strength of the Libertarian Ideal consists of nothing more than the proud assertion that freedom is an end-product that people value . |