Example sentences of "more than the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 , it spent $1.5 billion on research , more than the whole of the Japanese computer industry . |
| 2 | Nothing terrifies them more than the responsibility of choosing . |
| 3 | Here they yield 20 p.c. more than the rest of the market , on forecasts to March 1993 . |
| 4 | Now even more than the rest of the stuff that I 've said I would n't mention that to anybody else no . |
| 5 | The closeness she felt was more than the joining of their bodies ; it was all-encompassing , and shared , for in taking her he had also given himself . |
| 6 | It did not occur to her that she valued her relationship with Prince Richard more than the love of her children , and had anyone suggested this to her , she would have been mystified ; such a comparison was impossible . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | What was now involved here was more than the imposition of Offa 's overlordship upon the rulers of Kent ; it was the annexation of the province and the suppression of the native line . |
| 9 | but nothing stirred their animosity more than the treatment of General Dyer after the massacre at Amritsar . |
| 10 | There was more than the selection of the team to the boycott of a Test match by a people to whom the game has always been almost as precious as life itself but it again highlighted the fragile nature of West Indies cricket . |
| 11 | Or was it more than the influence of the Broadstairs sands ? |
| 12 | IF anything excites a fellow more than the price of a pint he is obviously a teetotaller . |
| 13 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 14 | I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack . |
| 15 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 16 | It was this , more than the death , more than the coldness of his father 's cheek , that broke the ice that had formed about his feelings . |
| 17 | It was perhaps this , more than the policy of Empire Free Trade per se , which lay behind their actions . |
| 18 | However , there was nothing to stimulate Branson 's interest more than the prospect of a good contract race against a rival company — Chrysalis , Polydor or CBS . |
| 19 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 20 | Brook argues that for repetition to turn into representation requires more than practice , more than craft , more than the power of word and gesture . |
| 21 | Some parts of the south had over 300 mm of rain on Jan. 2 to 24 , more than the average for a whole year . |
| 22 | Most people prefer to avoid pursuing a claim if it means going to court because of the expense , which can sometimes end up being more than the amount of money in dispute . |
| 23 | In New York , letters to Santa reflect the need more than the greed in that city of cities . |
| 24 | The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process . |
| 25 | But at the same time he has an acute sense of her as being more than the object of his perception , as being another subjectivity , a self which is not his own self . |
| 26 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 27 | Probably nothing politicised sport more than the decline in state school activity . |
| 28 | Or is the organisation more than the sum of its parts ? |
| 29 | Herbert Spencer , the philosopher of the evolutionary movement , argued that a society could be seen as a kind of biological organism in which the whole was more than the sum of the parts . |
| 30 | Harry was more than the sum of his parts |