Example sentences of "more than [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 2 | ‘ The milkman charges more than that for his homogenised muck , so take the bob , Dotty dear , and we 'll all be content . ’ |
| 3 | Of three books on the nervous system G. M. Shepherd 's Neurobiology is called an introduction but since it is a systematic study of 600 pages it is rather more than that for most of us . |
| 4 | ‘ I could let her serve her time to me , and make her fit for a job in any shop in Ireland , but we want more than that for her , do n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | I know disturbing you on Christmas Day is a bind but it 's more than that for me ! |
| 6 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 7 | By 1910 ) there were 155 pupils on the roll ; although this was only five more than that for which the original buildings had been designed , and there was now also the extra Sykes classroom , the Board of Education indicated that there was serious overcrowding and something would have to be done : the School fell considerably short of modern standards , and unless the Governors could provide suitable accommodation , the grant would not be paid after July 1915 . |
| 8 | The penalty for s.18 is life imprisonment , substantially more than that for s.20 , yet the harm may be the same : indeed , it could be less serious . |
| 9 | I think it 's more than that for the seniors . |
| 10 | Dancer , singer , actress , teacher and diplomat , her work is infused with an anger born of a deep knowledge of pain and oppression — racial and sexual — but much more than that with humour and wisdom . |
| 11 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 12 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 13 | He knew beyond any shadow of doubt that his own contribution to the hospital was worth infinitely more than that of a hundred Kegans . |
| 14 | His demonstration nowadays satisfies us no more than that of Descartes . |
| 15 | George , Prince of Wales , liked the climate and the local ambience much more than that of London , Windsor or Weymouth . |
| 16 | In particular Siemens and Philips in 1987/8 both had an annual turnover in the region of $25 billion ; this was approximately a third more than that of British Telecom . |
| 17 | With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end . |
| 18 | The mean density of Venus is therefore 5240 kg/m 3 , rather less than that of the Earth ( 5520 kg/m 3 ) and substantially more than that of Mars ( 3940 kg/m 3 ) . |
| 19 | At night the thermosphere of Venus cools far more than that of Mars , and reaches the low temperatures indicated in Figure 4.7 . |
| 20 | The Raman scattering due to different vibrations of a particular molecule is generally less variable than the intensity of the different IR bands , but the general level of intensity of Raman spectra varies from molecule to molecule much more than that of IR spectra . |
| 21 | If yields rise the price of B falls by less than the price of A , while if yields fall the price of B rises by more than that of A. High convexity is therefore a desirable property for bonds to have . |
| 22 | Recently it has become possible to convert simultaneously wood chips of a hundred or more hardwood species into paper pulp , which is important , as it is estimated that paper consumption will increase more than that of timber . |
| 23 | We ca n't ask any more than that of you . |
| 24 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 25 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 26 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 27 | Nor does the Athenaion Politeia say more than that on certain matters the Boule does not have the final decision ( xlv ) , which is less than a direct and triumphant assertion of the Assembly 's sovereignty . |
| 28 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 29 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 30 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |