Example sentences of "with more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 2 | The widely-held fears stem from the reasonable assumption that an independent or a devolved Scotland would be incapable of existing without considerable handouts from Whitehall and would have an administration with more than a left-wing tinge . |
| 3 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 4 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 5 | ‘ I take it then that you neither have children of your own , nor indeed a hotel , ’ she said now , with more than a slight trace of sarcasm . |
| 6 | Last season 's national finalists Watchorn Alfreton , of Derbyshire , may have left their title challenge a little late this year , but notched up their first victory in three games to jump up two places in the tables with more than a little help from experienced manager Ashley Broomhead . |
| 7 | There are 230 pupils at the High Green school , founded by Quakers in 1841 , and although it does not enter competitive festivals , several of its musically-gifted pupils have gone on to bigger and better things with more than a little help from Mr Essex . |
| 8 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 9 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 10 | Many of the fish are of specimen size , too , with more than a few record breakers . |
| 11 | Then a man with more than a few hairy £10 notes sticking out of his ears said , " We 'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . |
| 12 | Lousy beer , but a good jacket with more than a few memories of a young lady from Boulder , Colorado , attached to it . |
| 13 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 14 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 15 | Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving . |
| 16 | In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination . |
| 17 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 18 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 19 | fewer lone mothers worked part-time , about a quarter , compared with more than a third of married mothers . |
| 20 | Broadly speaking , the support of Parliament for any government with more than a nominal majority can be taken for granted and ministers come to the House to explain their policies , put through their bills , counter opposition propaganda and keep their supporters happy . |
| 21 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Colonel saw no reason to answer his wife with more than an equivocal smile . |