Example sentences of "more than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , when we heat glass to a temperature well below its melting point the shearing stress is reduced more than the brittle fracture stress and thus we can bend and shape and blow hot ( but not necessarily very hot ) glass quite easily . |
| 2 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |
| 3 | The possibility of value shifting derives from the fact that , in the above example , Target is paying Newco more than the economic value of the losses so , unless this is value shifting , it is also a tax-efficient way of " distributing " profits from Target to Newco , and need not be done out of Target 's distributable reserves . |
| 4 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 5 | Baker , at least , was one senior Tory who had read more than the occasional Archer . |
| 6 | However , each social group in Bradford uses the zero variant more than the corresponding group in Norwich . |
| 7 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will be dependent on other people , including its parents , more than the average child . |
| 8 | ‘ I think the way people wear their clothes bothers me more than the actual style of them . |
| 9 | She , more than the working husband , is the strong presence in Scarlet 's life , full of New Age vigour and ancient practicality . |
| 10 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 11 | The crusade was more than the great pilgrimage launched by Pope Urban in 1095 ; it was part of a larger movement , the expansion of Europe , against Islam and paganism in Spain , all through the Mediterranean , in Syria and the Holy Land , and in the Slavonic countries bordering on East Germany . |
| 12 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 13 | In 1809 he had an open-air congregation of 1500 , more than the entire population of the town . |
| 14 | Jonsson , following a study of delinquent boys in relation to marital breakdown and subsequent contact between children and parents , concluded that the " psychological reconstruction phase following divorce probably meant more than the acute conflict during the divorce proceeding " . |
| 15 | The lives of articulate people can be more interesting than fiction , but in general they would bore viewers more than the new vogue of delving into every aspect of sexual behaviour in discussion programmes . |
| 16 | In practice , it meant protecting the broadcasters from politicians and pressure groups more than the other way round . |
| 17 | like perhaps appeals to womens magazines more than the other stuff but I know that I mean it 's not romantic in that way is it 's not a romance |
| 18 | Shushkevich was elected by 214 votes out of a total of 312 , after three rounds of voting in the Supreme Soviet , gaining 163 votes more than the other candidate , Leonid Kozik . |
| 19 | He must be offered more than the bare minimum . |
| 20 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 21 | Cuts in subsidy forced the nationalized industries to increase prices more than the going rate of inflation and pressure was put on them to restrain borrowing . |
| 22 | I think British artists , much more than the general public , British artists are pretty aware of what 's going on on the Continent . |
| 23 | But Jezrael had lived more than the 3-D heroine and her admirer . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Do n't get me wrong , I 'm not saying that companies should n't sponsor ballet or opera , but I think they have to not lose sight of sponsorship potential with the disadvantages as well as the anonymous giving branch , because small amounts of money to some organizations may do disproportionately more than the Scottish Opera |
| 26 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 27 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 28 | He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter , even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial . |
| 29 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 30 | Indeed , they conclude that ‘ it is television that gives millions of people their basic idea of reality ’ , and this may be particularly true for older people , who on average watch 33 hours of television a week , 11 hours more than the national average . |