Example sentences of "more than [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 2 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 3 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 4 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 5 | Once Jonadab had threatened physical violence , the son realised that he was more than a match for his ageing parent . |
| 6 | I suspect his own life was more than a match for the movies , although he did like to imitate Hopalong Cassidy . |
| 7 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 8 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 9 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 10 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 11 | These days she was more than a match for his bullying ! |
| 12 | Surely a Leo was more than a match for a Scorpio , no matter how deadly its sting . |
| 13 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 15 | Some parts of the south had over 300 mm of rain on Jan. 2 to 24 , more than the average for a whole year . |