Example sentences of "very [adj] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I remember he nodded in his own particularly grave yet twinkling way and that was that , I may have mentioned it again , in which case he said very little more than , ‘ We 've already discussed it . ’ |
| 2 | In a very fast and expert manner the bottle would then be brought to an upright position , thus preventing very little more than the sediment from escaping . |
| 3 | Once you have understood how the machine creates slip , tuck and knit stitches , the rest is just a progression of these , involving very little more than using the electronic pattern selection . |
| 4 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 5 | Workstation based publishing systems like Interleaf are an industry standard but offer very little more than the Macintosh in terms of actual capabilities . |
| 6 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 7 | ‘ Which is very little more than he paid for it . |
| 8 | Very little more than she knew already about their relationship . |
| 9 | In connection with this it should also be remembered that all popular places , all sites actually used by the people , tend to retain the best routine of antiquity very much more than any localities or machines used by any privileged class . |
| 10 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
| 11 | He was greeted , berated and kept many hours , drinking very much more than he wanted . |
| 12 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
| 13 | The language used throughout these public self-descriptions reflected general visions of altruism and service : ‘ public protection ’ , ‘ willing to serve the public ’ , ‘ public confidence ’ , ‘ trust ’ , ‘ special skill ’ , ‘ the supply of professional services is very much more than a business transaction ’ . |
| 14 | People at all levels of the organization can accomplish very much more than they are asked to under contemporary conventions . |
| 15 | But as this show reveals , Monet 's ambitions were complex and far-reaching , and fed by very much more than what his eye saw . |
| 16 | But it is clear that Schüssler Fiorenza aims to be very much more than a historian . |
| 17 | The process , it should be clear , is very much more than " recording language by means of visible marks " . |
| 18 | This means that managers in companies that perform well should be paid very much more than they are now ( and the prospects of dismissal for poor performance should be increased ) . |
| 19 | If you locate your own specimens it is worth so very much more than catching one with a name . |
| 20 | They hear weather forecasts , erm see weather forecasts presented on television , and perhaps read weather forecasts in the newspaper , but the Met Office does very much more than that , does n't it ? |
| 21 | Erm it sometimes gets a bit , runs out of memory , if if you put very many more than that in . |