Example sentences of "more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And she knew now that the worst accusation to be levelled against such women as Marie Moon was that they found " all that " much more than simply worthwhile . |
| 32 | On the other hand , a high moral tone may denounce but fails to understand the problem , which is more than simply one of human weakness . |
| 33 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 34 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
| 35 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 36 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 37 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 38 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 39 | Alkali cleaners : These products are often little more than mildly alkaline detergents formulated from anionic-non-ionic detergent blends with a very small proportion of caustic soda and balancing sequestrant . |
| 40 | Amiss tried to sound no more than mildly interested . |
| 41 | Majority more than over half just got passes . |
| 42 | ‘ Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons , which need no repentance ’ . |
| 43 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 44 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 45 | But it is more than slightly worrying to find it still rampant in a largish UK company . |
| 46 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 47 | ‘ Though no doubt Quirinus would be more than slightly curious as to our errand in the Greshorns . |
| 48 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 49 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 50 | However , we think that Club Couples should be more than slightly special , and to this end our Couples Clubreps will be on hand with a few ideas , designed with a slightly more subdued mood in mind . |
| 51 | The voice was slightly husky , slightly slurred , and more than slightly disturbing . |
| 52 | Another rough guide is not to try more than approximately 4 or 6 different remedies without success before seeking more expert Homoeopathic advice . |
| 53 | The new method of showing the information for a VAT return ( it looks just like one of the horrid things ) is more than just useful , it 's a Godsend , and once you 've got into the methodology , invoice raising and bill paying as well as stock control become very quick and easy . |
| 54 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 55 | Kennedy was intent upon leading the Western World with an open-handedness that made Britain no more than just one of the Western European states . |
| 56 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 57 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 58 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 59 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
| 60 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |