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 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 3 | The idea that the two areas , arts and science , are more than simply subject groupings , is not a new one . |
| 4 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 9 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 14 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 18 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 19 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 20 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 21 | More than just extra officers and money , however , tackling Scotland 's new crime wave may require more imaginative solutions . |
| 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 | Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times . |
| 24 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 25 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But more than just physical damage had been incurred . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 30 | It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’ |