Example sentences of "more [conj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 2 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 3 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 4 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 5 | More than quarter of a million pounds has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 6 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 7 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 8 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 9 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 10 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 11 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 12 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 13 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 14 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 15 | ‘ T'was in more than t'colour of his hair that he was like a fox , ’ the maid replied . |
| 16 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 17 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 18 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 19 | In effect , he suggested that the social and economic divisions were more than ones of mere occupational group . |
| 20 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 21 | Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism . |
| 22 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 23 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 24 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
| 25 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 26 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 27 | Neither position , however , contains more than part of the truth . |
| 28 | But those more than hints of fine ensemble playing were amply realised the next night in the Dvorak , elegant and warm , crafted with care , and in Strauss 's Serenade from Capriccio . |
| 29 | All these may be no more than attempts of testing control while there may be an underlying awareness that all is not well . |
| 30 | The UN will provide legitimacy for what are little more than acts of international piracy and entirely consistent with the new world order strategy of ‘ destroy and abandon ’ . |