Example sentences of "more than [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made his point so tellingly , Mr Foot makes no sweeping claims about his compilation , writing simply : ‘ This is a book about war , more than about art … it is meant to contribute to the history of war , rather than to art history . ’ |
| 2 | The physical aspect of my journey had collapsed : a heel injury became aggravated , with a cut almost in as far as the bone , and the rest of the tour found me on wheels or afloat more than on foot . |
| 3 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 4 | The monks had the reputation , as monks generally did , of good living more than of holiness — a scurrilous couplet written by an early Pyrenean traveller speaks of ‘ Le long dîner , la courte messe / Dv bon abbé de Saint-Savin . ’ |
| 5 | It is possible , too , that tests will distort the curriculum with pupils being coached more than at present for examinations . |
| 6 | Also , I often feel I gain from venomously critical views of me as an artist , more than from dithery , sloppily fawning , supportive views . ’ |
| 7 | Most of the other passengers I knew only vaguely , by face more than by name . |
| 8 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 9 | In adult education , more than in schooling , and more than in higher education , the possibilities for resisting the inevitable are greater , because the learning relationship is not based on compulsion in quite the same way and because there is less male power invested in it . |
| 10 | Well more than in theory I suppose . |