Example sentences of "more than [det] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 2 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 3 | They bitterly resented the unfounded claims , but after a time pushed it from their minds as no more than another instance of government ruthlessness in propaganda . |
| 4 | Maybe it was no more than another way of affirming its life . |
| 5 | Lot 480 ( est $30,000–40,000 ) , ‘ The road — winter ’ , depicting Currier and his wife , brought $30,000 ( £21,428 ) , 8,000 more than another impression of the same print , in slightly poorer condition , made at Christie 's ( more pictures and results on page 31 ) . |
| 6 | Ronald Wright 's re-telling of the fate of the indigenous people is far more than another manifestation of the popular pastime of Columbus-bashing designed to ensure that this year 's quincentennial celebrations should be suitably controversial . |
| 7 | But , with a sinking feeling that chilled her more than any explosion of anger on his part , she realised that she was far from sure that such consent would be denied . |
| 8 | More than any scholar of his generation ( G. Gilbert Murray , q.v. , apart ) he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools . |
| 9 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 10 | MORE than any change of government since 1945 , Margaret Thatcher 's election victory was taken as marking a decisive shift in the national mood , politically , intellectually , and culturally . |
| 11 | He 'd felt the anger and the bitterness of the woman — far more than any sense of anguish or loss . |
| 12 | Thus was made an archbishop who did more than any Archbishop of Canterbury since Stephen Langton of Magna Carta to make the Church more free in its relation to the State . |