Example sentences of "more [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers can set aside more than minimum requirement ( this takes in farmers on previous five-year scheme ) . |
| 2 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 3 | More than critical accounts of class or ‘ race ’ , feminism is currently an important vehicle for bringing into psychology the social questions which the discipline skates over . |
| 4 | Historical incidents were no more than superficial disturbances of the established order or recurring events of unchanging significance . |
| 5 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 6 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Neither was there evidence of anything more than superficial surface treatment . |
| 8 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 9 | A real page-turner , with a more than satisfying conclusion . |
| 10 | ‘ Your little green chaps are no more than that snake really , are n't they ? |
| 11 | Might be more than that Martine and Mrs she had the next caravan to , to me |
| 12 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 13 | Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar . |
| 14 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 15 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 16 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 17 | and what 's more you have to have more than that Tim . |
| 18 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 19 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 20 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 21 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 22 | If more than that number is required , requests must be supported by good reasons , and will require to be counter-signed by C Will , G Lomas or R Pankhurst . |
| 23 | I ca n't assume from my background that I can trust all theories any more than all accountants or all lawyers . |
| 24 | Alas , in most gardens , especially suburban , most of the Old and shrub roses will hardly be thought suitable ( size alone rules them out ) but that is not to say all will be unsuitable , any more than all H.T.s and Floribundas are really suitable . |
| 25 | But there 's more than one way of finding out what you need to know — start a conversation around the subject , use friends or people in the news as examples — you can find out how he feels about their situation , without relating it directly to you . |
| 26 | There 's more than one way to kill a cat … . |
| 27 | There 's more than one way to prevent segre to prevent integration , you can draw school boundaries in certain ways to effectively segregate schools if you want to , but let's not have this macho stuff on the school steps , armed guards , you know , er I mean er the pictures of mobs , that 's the only expression for them I suppose , mobs of white people , you know , throwing , throwing bricks and bottles at seven and eight year old black children on the way to school , I do n't want , I do n't want , I can do without it . |
| 28 | And they make sure there 's more than one member of staff around . |
| 29 | Where more than one assessment was raised under different statutory provisions in respect of the same amount then , provided these were clearly alternative assessments , they were not void . |
| 30 | Where more than one sample has been used , mean values are shown here , although there are within-species differences . |