Example sentences of "more than [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 2 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 3 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 4 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 5 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 6 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 7 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 8 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 9 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 10 | You now offer a lot more than just negotiations on pay . |
| 11 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
| 12 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 13 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 14 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
| 15 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 16 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 17 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
| 18 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 19 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 20 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 21 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 22 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 23 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 25 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 26 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 27 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 28 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 29 | Unless the wind is more than about 45° to the direction of take-off , a strong cross wind seldom creates problems . |
| 30 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |