Example sentences of "more than [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 2 | Mitchell then forwarded to Cameron in Dar es Salaam a quite unrecognizable version of the Murrells scheme which was nothing more than a vastly elaborated edition of the existing system of administration through the laibon and laigwenak . |
| 3 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 4 | This view is more than a particularly extreme form of the New Critics ' attack on the ‘ intentional fallacy ’ . |
| 5 | More are appearing all the time , and nineteen eighty two will be no more than a particularly rich year for them . |
| 6 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 7 | That slight stiffness I mentioned earlier takes a little getting used to , but no more than a slightly eager clutch , say , in a new car . |
| 8 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 9 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 10 | Indeed , Parkin goes on to suggest that the functionalist theory of stratification itself is an expression of the same value-system : no more than a rather sophisticated mechanism for providing a justification of unequal rewards . |
| 11 | The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is nothing more than a rather larger Americanised version of Wookey Hole in Somerset or the Dan-yr-Ogof caves in South Wales . |
| 12 | With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe . |
| 13 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 14 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 15 | This Act introduced a new block grant in England and Wales and included a formula which penalized councils which spent more than a previously determined limit . |
| 16 | If so , it would seem to be no more than a logically disreputable form of reasoning to which I have to resort until the scientific study of behaviour puts more rigorous methods at my disposal . |
| 17 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 18 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |
| 19 | Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming . |
| 20 | Carpenter , predictably , finds the three essayists — Richard Humphreys , John Alexander and Peter Robinson — ‘ taking a rather solemn approach to the whole thing ’ ; whereas , he assures us , Pound 's exertions on behalf of these arts partook ‘ more than a little of the amiable joke ’ . |
| 21 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 22 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 23 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 24 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 25 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 26 | Anyone who succeeded in business in the past decade owed more than a little to the climate she created . |
| 27 | It deserves to succeed , and hints more than a little at a film soundtrack . |
| 28 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 29 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , and frankly more than a little displeased . |