Example sentences of "rather more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument .
2 IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit .
3 The crucial distinction between the residual and the institutional model is that , in the latter , the state accepts responsibility for the provision of rather more than a basic minimum .
4 The results of these Monday afternoon treks ( is at Nursery and I am not at work only Monday and Friday afternoon and Friday afternoon is not a good time to go bothering people ! ) were now covering rather more than a double page and indeed was too much for a single newsletter article .
5 Rather more than a nuisance .
6 The house , called ‘ Quindry ’ is an ugly , flat-roofed box-shaped building , which resembled a factory unit rather more than a home .
7 Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers .
8 Though formerly something of a manufacturer , God is clearly rather more than a management guru .
9 Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job .
10 But perhaps Charles 's realm was intended to be rather more than a prospective one .
11 In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded .
12 I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour .
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