Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 2 | He is more than the greatest of stroke-players and he was patient enough to take advantage of Robertson 's flagging energy and win 12-15 , 9-15 , 15-5 , 15-12 , 15-8 . |
| 3 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 4 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 5 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 6 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 7 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 8 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |