Example sentences of "more [subord] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 2 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 3 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 4 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 5 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 6 | Even if the Carlists were unlikely ever to possess more than nuisance value , the Falange , with its wider appeal and rapid growth-rate , was a different matter . |
| 7 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 8 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 9 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 10 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 11 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 12 | When the Minister announced the scheme I described the measures as ’ no more than damage limitation measures . |
| 13 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 14 | Since birth weight ( and viability ) in the teens increases dramatically with rising age and , inasmuch as higher parity among women under age 20 also meant higher maternal age in that age class , decreasing infant mortality in this age group by birth order may be more than chance variation . |
| 15 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 16 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 17 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 18 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 19 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 20 | The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place . |
| 21 | Some trial and error should eliminate the laziest papers , whose critics do no more than pillage catalogue introductions , or even press releases . |
| 22 | Well , the cape would do no more than implicate Putt in the rape of the gipsy girl and it seems she 's married and gone . |
| 23 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 24 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 25 | They were proceeding at no more than walking pace past the numerous hut-like structures around the perimeter of the Barracks , and Denis kept his gaze resolutely in front of him . |
| 26 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
| 27 | Bear in mind that most of the ‘ highways ’ leading out of medieval London were no more than bridle paths . |
| 28 | In 1958 Professor Richard Titmuss argued that social services included more than Welfare State services such as education , social security or the NHS . |
| 29 | It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents per annum , many more than road accidents . |
| 30 | The war was not a concept which claimed Julia 's attention any more than land girls . |