Example sentences of "of [art] more [subord] " in BNC.

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1 By judicious use of the more than adequate graphic , a wide variety of sounds can be accessed .
2 This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context .
3 Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university .
4 It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism .
5 SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill .
6 In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich .
7 For the majority of the population , it seems that , now as before , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was of no more than secondary interest .
8 Ken de la Salle , head of foreign exchange , also stayed cool , predicting a top rate of no more than Dm2.88 for the pound the following day .
9 Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses .
10 He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ .
11 The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves .
12 Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county .
13 It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years .
14 Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% .
15 In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards .
16 In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors .
17 I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy .
18 Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government .
19 questions with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words
20 This type of constructed response item consists of a question with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words .
21 I could think of no more than the usual inadequate response .
22 Jack was determined to make flying his life , and thought of no more than achieving his wish to fly .
23 Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line .
24 The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C .
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