Example sentences of "[prep] more senses than " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment , the train is static in more senses than one , as fifty City office-workers try simultaneously to detach their ninety-per-cent nylon polyamide jackets , which have statically fused to their hundred-per-cent nylon polyamide shirts , resulting in a display of electrostatics that I 'm sure would surprise even Mr Van de Graaff himself . |
| 2 | In more senses than one they belong to no man 's land . |
| 3 | R. S. Wood himself , occupying a central position in more senses than one , wished to see a transfer of all pupils at the age of eleven to a common secondary school , followed by transfer for a selected minority at the age of thirteen to either a grammar or a technical school . |
| 4 | I was on my last of eight trips to the Soviet Union , and I had a growing suspicion that this take-off might soon be my last in more senses than one . |
| 5 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 6 | The destruction of Chesney Wold may be traced back , in more senses than one , to the family ghost , for it is haunted by one who represents the cause of commonwealth and people , as opposed to monarchy and the pride of privilege . |
| 7 | " She 's always " all behind " , in more senses than one . " |
| 8 | In more senses than one we can say with the Creed , ‘ I believe in the Holy Spirit , the Lord , the Lifegiver . ’ |
| 9 | compared with the rejected miscellany , it was even less what that orthodox scholar could approve , but it was certainly " unified " — in more senses than one . |
| 10 | Wednesday was a practice day in more senses than one . |
| 11 | She kept her cool and dished out more than her fair share of barefaced cheek , in more senses than one . |
| 12 | Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one . |
| 13 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |
| 14 | Grain is big business , in more senses than one . |