Example sentences of "more [conj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 2 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 3 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 5 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 6 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 7 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 8 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 9 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 10 | Moreover , according to a report by consultancy Price Waterhouse , in 1990 finance and retail companies slowed computer spending more than firms in any other sector ; the vast majority of Softwright 's business comes from these two areas , and long-established clients account for two-thirds of its turnover . |
| 11 | If personal relationships counted for a great deal more than structures in such a world , nobility and kinship gave a man claims on royal favour ; and the most influential men — the holders of the key household offices , for instance — were those with special Königsnähe . |
| 12 | Most sites do not produce remains that can be readily understood by casual visitors , and they often consist of little more than holes in the ground showing where posts once formed part of a timber building , pits dug for various purposes , or ditches for drainage , boundaries and defence . |
| 13 | Without time to do more than yell in protest as he set off , Sarella launched herself after him and did her utmost to keep pace . |
| 14 | There is more than relief in outrunning or fighting off danger : there is a real pleasure . |
| 15 | Bones in organic rich soil appear to be altering more than bones in well drained sandy soil , but it is too early to attach any significance to this apparent change . |
| 16 | Most of the new local authorities based their management structure on the Bains recommendations ( Alexander 1982a:69 — 72 ) , usually with modifications affecting the number of committees : local authorities did not follow Bains any more than Maud in the creation of programme committees . |
| 17 | In fact , contrary to what has sometimes been said about his modesty , he enjoyed talking about his work , even when it was no more than work in progress . |
| 18 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 19 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , that Empire which , as Dryden said , ‘ is no more than power in trust ’ , provoked a world war . |
| 21 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 22 | Was there anything more than desire in his quest of her ? |
| 23 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 24 | The combination of results means that we are clean in second place ( two points more than Newcastle in third ) and more importantly two points closer to United . |
| 25 | The techniques just described are no more than guidelines in what remains the creative art of studying and describing what an experienced worker is doing or will be required to do . |
| 26 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 27 | As yet , Mitch was too occupied with the rope to do more than glance in their direction . |
| 28 | Dr ‘ Richards ’ There 's much more than medicine in it … we 're not general practitioners , we 're family doctors , which means you 're a family friend . |
| 29 | The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out . |
| 30 | That 's why he 's had them put in cos the flat 's more than house in in the only thing is I would say to you to let a heat from the kitchen and the |