Example sentences of "are [adv] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 2 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 3 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 4 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 5 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 6 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 7 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 8 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 9 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 10 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 11 | To grant these rights and judicial privileges to corporations ( and other organizations ) is simply to give them additional resources for a judicial battle in which many , particularly the transnationals , are already more than a fair match for national state regulatory agencies . |
| 12 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 13 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 14 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 15 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 16 | The individual polja can be over 65 km ( 40 miles ) long , but are seldom more than a few kilometres across , their long axes conforming to the north-west to south-east direction of the Dinaric trend lines . |