Example sentences of "more than [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 10 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 11 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 12 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 13 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 18 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 19 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 20 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 21 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 22 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 23 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 24 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 25 | But more than just physical damage had been incurred . |
| 26 | more than just physical reason I , I mean a lot of people are grossly overweight they , you know , people usually say oh it 's the |
| 27 | It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’ |
| 28 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 29 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 30 | This is more than just instrumental self-aggrandizement , because this ‘ market forces ’ approach is an important ideological device in ‘ recommodification ’ , but the form of involvement is highly instrumental for many participants . |