Example sentences of "of more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may expect , to some degree , a hero ( or , more rarely , a heroine ) of more than ordinary stature . |
| 2 | activities involving ‘ a more than ordinary risk of accidents or a risk of more than ordinary damage if accidents in fact result ’ — as a basis for future development of the law . |
| 3 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 4 | That the kindred of Osbern of Eu and the kindred of William fitzOsbern with their friends had succeeded in carrying Duke William to a resounding victory against the invasion of his combined enemies was therefore news of more than ordinary importance . |
| 5 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 6 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 7 | Another aid , of more than technical significance , was the existence of the state and of the police . |
| 8 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 9 | That is , the underlying holdings of serious reference works , older classics , local history and other works of more than ephemeral interest would fall to such a low level that most readers ' questions and serious enquiries could not be answered without outside help . |
| 10 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 11 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 12 | Liathach is the greatest challenge to Torridon 's visitors and only those of more than average energy and experience should accept it . |
| 13 | Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance . |
| 14 | There are two reasons why this 1956 mono recording of Orff 's well-worn choral work is of more than usual interest . |
| 15 | The withdrawal of delegates from the UN from the conference is of more than symbolic importance . |
| 16 | These studies of immediate memory span are of more than historical interest because the fact that there is such a severe limit is important in the design of information presentations of technical data — a standard ergonomics problem . |
| 17 | There is a chained library of 1500 books and many works of more than local interest . |
| 18 | The purpose of this chapter is to identify the places where specialist collections of more than local importance may be found , as well as indicating the kind of local material that is so freely accessible . |
| 19 | The Flemish cities , Laon , and Toulouse were all commercial centres of more than local importance before they launched their campaigns for privileges ; and if their leaders were not highly educated men at the beginning of the century — it has been suggested that the reason why weaving was concentrated in towns in Flanders was that illiterate merchants could not keep the complicated records necessary for a scattered cottage industry — then they rapidly acquired learning along with their corporate awareness in the course of the century . |
| 20 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 21 | Successive Governments have adopted the policy that individual decisions should be taken out of the hands of local planning authorities only if they raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 22 | What now needs to be established , in accordance with our usual policy , is whether the proposal raises issues of more than local importance or whether the matters in question justify a departure from the policy that matters of local importance should be dealt with by local authorities . |
| 23 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 24 | Does it raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 25 | If the Department of the Environment think that there are issues of more than local importance they will call it in but their preliminary view expressed to the local MP Mr is that they do n't believe that 's the case . |
| 26 | But the hunt is a setting of more than ornamental significance : when the young men of Judith 's retinue aid the display of the prince 's virtue , they symbolically carry out their political roles of aides and adjutants . |
| 27 | After three years of exceptionally low rainfall , especially on the eastern side of England , it is of more than academic interest to know just how much rain has fallen on the garden . |
| 28 | This point is of more than academic interest since there are , in fact , quite significant differences in the functional organization of apparently homologous structures in different species . |
| 29 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 30 | Both leads are provided , and they 're both of more than adequate length for connecting a portable PC to a desktop machine . |