Example sentences of "more [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 2 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 3 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 4 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 5 | This actually is little more than the theology of Genesis chapter two . |
| 6 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |
| 7 | That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage , if she was honest . |
| 8 | He points out that this was about 5% more than the level of performance during the years 1988 to 1990 . |
| 9 | £350 million needs to be spent by the Council by the year 2000 to ensure that it meets its statutory responsibilities — this is £165 million , or 90% more than the level of investment allocation likely to be approved by the Scottish Office in this period . |
| 10 | Among other measures in the budget , excise duties on tobacco products , petrol and diesel fuel were increased by more than the level of inflation ; the rate of corporation tax was cut from 35 to 34 per cent for 1990-91 and further to 32 per cent for 1991-92 ; and increases were made in child benefit . |
| 11 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 12 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 13 | And to say as much — to think as much — was to admit religion , to admit that life held more than the grave at the end of it , to admit that there was a spirit which transcended the poor imperfect flesh . |
| 14 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |
| 15 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 16 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 17 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 18 | For little more than the price of ordinary-looking hardcover books you can own these extraordinary editions — books that are admired and collected in 131 countries around the world . |
| 19 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |
| 20 | You would only have to spend £1,400 more than the price of the Metro to acquire a 16 valve Renault Clio and that really is a different class of car altogether . |
| 21 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 22 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 23 | However , it cost little more than the price of the land — a real bargain , ’ she parodied in a bitter little voice . |
| 24 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 25 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
| 26 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 27 | Is social development any more than the provision of village halls and recreation facilities ? |
| 28 | Effective cross-cultural briefing , such as that practised at the Farnham Castle International Briefing Centre , has to be more than the provision of information . |
| 29 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 30 | It would n't have any point that could be called a beginning or end , any more than the surface of the earth has a beginning or end . |