Example sentences of "more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My essay will trace the pattern of references to other literary sources of which the author herself was sometimes no more than subliminally aware . |
| 2 | And once again the motif is transpersonalized , for in the novel Shatov proves himself more than ordinarily resolute ; his paper Slavophilism does n't touch his human courage as husband and friend — and enemy . |
| 3 | It will contain one of the finest and openest quadrangles in this country ; its details will be more than ordinarily lively and cheerful ; its amount of window light will exceed that of , probably , any public building in this country ; its construction will embody every modern improvement , invention , and appliance ; its materials will be the most perfect which long and earnest study enable me to render them , while its cost will not in the least exceed what is customary with public buildings in the usual style . |
| 4 | If we wish to revive that tradition , or if we are interested in creating a fully democratic society , then there can be no doubt that a more than narrowly political or formal equality must be one of our goals . |
| 5 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 6 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 7 | Despite good intentions and solid backing , the military published only fourteen papers with a circulation of about 70,000 copies , or little more than double that of Gudok alone . |
| 8 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 9 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 10 | Thus the proportion of all men belonging to occupational pension schemes is more than double that of women . |
| 11 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 12 | ‘ The taxman will get more than double that . |
| 13 | Losses on Commercial lines for the year were more than double 1991 , reflecting the difficult market conditions . |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 15 | Mr O'Gara now expects that proportion to shrink rapidly as sales of the PSV-2 more than double this year . |
| 16 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 17 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 18 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 19 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 20 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 21 | These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class . |
| 22 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 23 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
| 24 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
| 25 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 26 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 27 | If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable . |
| 28 | Furthermore , in those cases where these events are allowed to have a probability of I , that is no more than logically consistent with their being necessitated . |
| 29 | The idea that the two areas , arts and science , are more than simply subject groupings , is not a new one . |
| 30 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |