Example sentences of "[pron] more than a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’
2 In the last year , Henderson has proved himself more than a mere economic indicator by giving Lord Hanson a drubbing before he had even formally launched a takeover bid for ICI .
3 Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing
4 In deciding to take action over the aids to CNP , the Commission points to the unfairness of state subsidies in the ‘ fiercely competitive ’ ECU 280 000m EC chemical industry , in which more than a third of all production is traded between the 12 member states .
5 An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands .
6 Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own .
7 A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation .
8 Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features .
9 It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front .
10 The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … .
11 Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’
12 But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary .
13 She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse .
14 Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face .
15 Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action .
16 Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction .
17 Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest .
18 It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system .
19 It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh .
20 We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ .
21 This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required .
22 Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official .
23 If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life .
24 [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist .
25 Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision .
26 St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation .
27 The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms .
28 It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there .
29 An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features .
30 The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit .
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