Example sentences of "more than [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Somerset is more than just pretty scenery |
| 32 | It should always be much more than just another suit . ’ |
| 33 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 34 | Although the distributor actually purchases goods from the manufacturer to resell on his own account , he is much more than just another customer . |
| 35 | This record is a kind of respect-is-due gesture — a splurge of celeb guests , a handful of Jimenez relatives and a smattering of loopy polkas to show Flaco off as more than just another name on the studio credits . |
| 36 | 22COMMENT THE GUARDIANWednesday November 8 1989 More than just another disaster . |
| 37 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 38 | Whether you come to expand your waist , see the sights or go shopping , you 'll soon realise that Frankfurt is a lot more than just another business city — Frankfurt is fun . |
| 39 | Whatever the final verdict may be , EP has shown itself , yet again , to be more than just another area of applied computer science . |
| 40 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 41 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 42 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 43 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 44 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 45 | We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth . |
| 46 | First there had been the stone tubs on the forecourt , a constant temptation to vandals who got a more than commonly satisfying kick from ravishing these particular flowers . |
| 47 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 48 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 49 | But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage . |
| 50 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 51 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 52 | Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways ? |
| 53 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 54 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 55 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 56 | But this could be seen as simply a more than usually coherent version of a familiar Austro-German interpretation of nineteenth century music history , which sets an over-privileged Viennese tradition at its normative centre . |
| 57 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 58 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 59 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 60 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |