Example sentences of "and more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference .
2 His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those .
3 He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him .
4 Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification .
5 They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation .
6 THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us .
7 Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system .
8 If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method .
9 After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home .
10 The language of Gerardo 's pleadings is too forthright as well and more than a little familiar : ‘ Imagine what would happen if everyone acted like you did ’ ; ‘ You 're still a prisoner , locked up with them , in that basement .
11 Today , it seems , for many of us , these words hold an altogether different promise and more than a few terrors .
12 Its branches reported 1,350 incidents of bomb damage , and more than a third of the staff left to serve in the armed forces .
13 Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation .
14 Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay .
15 During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays .
16 WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC
17 It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work .
18 More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings .
19 The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness .
20 Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery .
21 Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment .
22 This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory .
23 Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community .
24 Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal .
25 A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer .
26 About half these pupils are black and more than a third are girls .
27 There were many people about working at the common land between the walls , and more than a few seated outside the few inns they passed .
28 The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument .
29 Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension .
30 ‘ I can only assure you that you have the wrong person , Mr Wyatt ; there are many models , and more than a few work in the Midlands , and several must have other business interests .
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