Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |
| 2 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 3 | W. E. Gladstone saw Hill 's men as extremely Calvinistic ; but conclusive evidence that Hill himself was more than a moderate Calvinist is lacking . |
| 4 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 5 | Then again , Nicodemus would have learned and discovered that the Lord Jesus is infinitely more than a great teacher . |
| 6 | A small company will probably focus its attention on each artist 's project more than a major label . |
| 7 | There were of course other institutions of central government , which can not be given more than a bare mention here . |
| 8 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 9 | This was more than a simple distillation of the man 's thoughts on the current political situation . |
| 10 | It was more than a simple indication of wants , because with a little prodding Bobo was starting to make sentences with a logical construction to them . |
| 11 | The striking lack of correspondence between the two sets of equivalents is , however , more than a simple difference in surface realization ; the non-isomorphism is semantic as well as formal . |
| 12 | She was more than a wee bit confused . |
| 13 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 14 | After the terrible decades of Cold War and such near approaches to Hot War as the Cuba crisis , after decades in which the whole of Eastern Europe was a remote and hostile armed camp , the sudden thaw in which all of Europe seemed caught up was more than a political event . |
| 15 | Since the mid-1980s , when autonomy was conceded to the Atlantic coast and the principle of bilingual , bi-cultural education was established , the question of language became an educational more than a political problem . |
| 16 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 17 | This was more than a political strategy , however . |
| 18 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 19 | The failure of Soviet nationalities policy , however , was more than a personal failure ; it also reflected the failure , over more than seventy years , to devise an official theory that could adequately account for ethnic and national differences , and perhaps a still deeper weakness in a doctrine that insisted working men ‘ had no country ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'll cost you more than a bloody ticket to get me to vote for you lot , ’ replied the fan . |
| 21 | Two-thirds of respondents anticipate no change in planned adspend for 1992 , and none of the more optimistic forecast more than a slight increase . |
| 22 | And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 24 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 25 | The whole approach to their wardrobe is more considered , but their trick is to make it look as though they have n't given their appearance more than a passing thought . |
| 26 | You never spared more than a passing thought for me . |
| 27 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 28 | For the thousands of families who flocked into Little Rock this was more than a mere election . |
| 29 | It was more than a mere walk … |
| 30 | The argument between Watson and Forbes was more than a mere priority dispute — it reflected a basic disagreement over the purpose of gathering geographical information . |