Example sentences of "more than [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 2 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 3 | Mr O'Gara now expects that proportion to shrink rapidly as sales of the PSV-2 more than double this year . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 5 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 6 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 7 | The idea that the two areas , arts and science , are more than simply subject groupings , is not a new one . |
| 8 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 9 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 10 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 11 | Alkali cleaners : These products are often little more than mildly alkaline detergents formulated from anionic-non-ionic detergent blends with a very small proportion of caustic soda and balancing sequestrant . |
| 12 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 13 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 14 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 15 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 16 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 17 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 18 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 19 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 20 | Well , what you need , Joe , is to follow my fitness regime — the one designed for people who , in their heart of hearts , with their cigarettes already lit , wish they had more than just two hands to eat with , but because they are also cursed with a love for sport have to get fit the best they can . |
| 21 | His warning to the American President that he would support Native Americans ( ‘ Red Indians ’ , whom he presumes to be tribally organized ) against the federal government is consistent with his view that natural ties are more than just rational ones . |
| 22 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 23 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 24 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 25 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 26 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 27 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 28 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 29 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 30 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |