Example sentences of "[art] [adv] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some families who need the certainty of legal adoption are none the less more than willing to allow their child to continue contact with members of the birth family . |
| 2 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 3 | Berkeley School had taken on a little more than they had bargained for . |
| 4 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 5 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 6 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 7 | For those who want a little more than Dulux Silk Emulsion , may we recommend ‘ Colefax & Fowler , the Best In English Interior Decoration ’ , a publication lauding the USM-listed interior decorator . |
| 8 | The response was tremendous ; the reaction incredibly enthusiastic , and so from that point , it became a little more than a folk club . |
| 9 | The swing from the Conservatives here of 5.21 per cent was less than in either nearby Gloucester ( 5.34 ) or Stroud ( 6.22 ) , where sitting members were candidates , and only a little more than Bath , where 4.95 per cent defeated a Cabinet minister . |
| 10 | Although only a little more than one-third of the farms grew silage the 820 ha grown was similar in amount to that cut for hay . |
| 11 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 12 | In a few lines , just a little more than a note , he had told her that Maria was depressed . |
| 13 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 14 | But now his intellectual horizons had shrunk to debates about motorways or endless conversations about the right school for one 's child , it was as if he did n't want to remember the Henry who had once promised a little more than that . |
| 15 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 16 | Renault 's tiny Zoom , with its ability to park sideways , is liable to be shrunk a little more than intended . |
| 17 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 18 | A fresh standard supermarket turkey costs a little more than frozen , while the price of a traditional farm fresh bird does vary depending on the producer , breed and whether or not it is free range — but you can pay up to twice as much . |
| 19 | This inevitably means that a helicopter set will cost a little more than a basic aircraft set which needs no more than four channels . |
| 20 | As the adverts claim , ‘ Our high-performance service costs a little more than average . |
| 21 | This is not supposed to be a travelogue , and I can see from your faces that you want a little more than a cheery jaunt … |
| 22 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 23 | Mercury 's perihelion advanced a little more than the theory said it ought to . |
| 24 | ‘ As for him , some people reap a little more than they sow and others nothing at all . |
| 25 | Quattro Coronati , the largest churches built in Rome in the ninth century ( a great age of papal building ) , were a little more than half the size of San Vincenzo Maggiore . |
| 26 | Eighty billion dollars was a little more than the mind of Colt could cope with . |
| 27 | Since opening the gates to the Magic Kingdom a little more than a year ago , Euro Disney has been beset by a series of much-publicised problems : poor attendance , labour disputes , French snobbery and pan-European discontent over high prices and long queues . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a little more than that , Toby . |
| 29 | The two year deal took nine months to negotiate , according to Neuron Data chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Perez , and is worth a little more than the company 's entire turnover for the month of December last year — see below . |
| 30 | There is none of the variety which O'Brian provides through the intimate or casual conversations of Aubrey and Maturin : although circumstances allow Hornblower a little more than a restricted relationship with his loyal and devoted lieutenant Bush , it is never a Personal friendship . |