Example sentences of "more than [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , in these models , if the firms have different and non-constant marginal costs , a further source of inefficiency is that total market output will be produced at more than minimum total cost — the marginal costs of firms are not equalized at the equilibrium . |
| 2 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 3 | ‘ He was drinking even more than usual that night . |
| 4 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 5 | From meetings at Highlander , between other organisations and community groups , an active organisation evolved which demanded more information from state and federal agencies on the contents and safety aspects of chemical dumps , and became involved in ‘ more than occasional direct action ( in a few cases , civil disobedience ) to stop the dumping . ’ |
| 6 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 8 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 9 | Purchasers in future will be able to safeguard themselves by ensuring that permission to develop is forthcoming before they pay more than current existing-use value or , where a claim on the fund passes with the land , current existing-use value plus 1947 development value . |
| 10 | The show is dominated by more than life-size naked bronze men inspired by the majestic Hellenistic bronze warriors rescued from the sea off southern Italy in the 1970s . |
| 11 | A trainee psychologist , played by Lambert 's wife , Diane Lane , is drafted in to help track down the real killer and — you guessed it — takes a more than passing professional interest in Sanderson . |
| 12 | The matter is of more than passing scientific interest . |
| 13 | Yet by normal standards her cautious words — she 's 64 , after all — were no more than simple common sense . |
| 14 | On the one hand , such proposals seem no more than simple common sense : why should courts decide disputes without being aware of the wider ramifications of what they are deciding . |
| 15 | The company hopes that between 10 million and 11 million passengers annually will be using the service within two years — 25 per cent more than used British Rail 's services on the two lines . |
| 16 | Barr et al ( 1989 ) go so far as to suggest that ‘ if the receiving hospital is allowed to ‘ dump ’ excess capacity by charging no more than short-term marginal cost it will , in effect , be ‘ stealing ’ part of another District 's budget ’ . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , women still childless at age 32 were more likely to be from a professional background with few brothers or sisters , and with mothers who themselves married late , and to have more than average personal ambition and parental interest . |
| 18 | It was funny , actually it was on that one , I think he was a little bit erm sexually-orientated more than average this gentleman , cos he 'd got the four poster bed . |
| 19 | I 'm surprised that the police should trouble themselves with what is surely no more than cheap journalistic spite . |
| 20 | Highly theory-dependent explanations of these patterns then appear to be not much more than inspired common sense . |
| 21 | Mineral extraction and quarrying were the only other enterprises producing for more than immediate local demand , though practical considerations must generally have limited the distances stone could be transported . |
| 22 | Oh no , no that 's more than reasonable good day , thank you ! |
| 23 | His multi- handed companions play their parts ( albeit less exacting ones ) with no less skill , with a unanimity that stems from more than mere visual watchfulness ; the recording engineer has added his contribution in the form of truthful sound and first-rate balance . |
| 24 | Kimura argued that the lack of movement asymmetry in the humming condition showed that more than mere vocal activity was involved in producing the difference between the hands . |
| 25 | The elections have been organised without the facility for the candidates to address the electorate directly , that is with more than mere biographical detail . |
| 26 | Such a survey can serve more than mere biographical curiosity , and a final section will suggest how it may clarify some issues of current interest to historians , to philosophers and to biologists . |
| 27 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |
| 28 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
| 29 | Scooping previous winners Shell and Tesco , ICI was mentioned by a third — more than double last year 's survey . |
| 30 | Far more than incipient political change , it is the random violence that makes for the sense of dread among whites . |