Example sentences of "more [prep] [pron] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 2 | She might , heaven forbid , allow herself to fall for him , and suffer the fate of the last three nurses whom he had rejected , according to Victoria , after they had expected more from him than just mild flirtation . |
| 3 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 4 | Rourke was more to her than just an employer . |
| 5 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 6 | This visit to Glastonbury must have been an impressive occasion , but there was probably more to it than simply pomp and piety . |
| 7 | But there 's more to it than simply committing the documents to microfiche . |
| 8 | The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals . |
| 9 | She said there must be more to it than just worrying about wanting a small waist , and she was right : out it came . |
| 10 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 12 | The sociologically based interview has thus rather more to it than merely being a test of the reaction to Brand X. Here a difficulty does arise though , and it is best to face up to it right away . |
| 13 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 14 | Now , in the age of AIDS , porn means more to us than ever before . |