Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | What perhaps all this suggests is that public administration is more than private management writ public . |
| 2 | Do you think their so-called friendship is more than — well — professional ? ’ |
| 3 | We heard from the Lord d'Aubigny that the Scottish Council is more than prepared to welcome Queen Margaret back with open arms . ’ |
| 4 | GMs wind-cheating coupe is more than a pretty face . |
| 5 | This Devonian is more than a useful one-day cricketer who does his stuff as a medium-pace seamer. he is rated as a sound technical batsman , sure-footed against the spinner and able to get the short-pitched bowling away . |
| 6 | However , given the limited resolution of home computer graphics the accuracy of this method is more than adequate for today 's home computers . |
| 7 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 8 | . Whether this manoeuvre is more than a technical device is dubious . |
| 9 | This view is more than a particularly extreme form of the New Critics ' attack on the ‘ intentional fallacy ’ . |
| 10 | This house is more than large enough for us to live quite separately . ’ |
| 11 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
| 12 | There 's sunbursts and there 's sunbursts , and although this one is flawed by a couple of sanding marks around the back , the overall effect is more than a little tasty . |
| 13 | For we already have knowledge , ’ said the king , ‘ that our enemy in Wales has sent letters praying aid to all these potential foes of our state , and a joint assault is more than a possibility . |
| 14 | Naturally enough , any nutritious medium is more than welcome for best growth . |
| 15 | This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | The significance of these environments is more than just their friendly appearance to the user and their use of graphics rather than text standards . |
| 17 | The human mind is more than a computer : Computers have dull and exact memories — what went in can come out again , exactly as it went in . |
| 18 | A good caddie is more than a mere assistant . |
| 19 | As that doyen of golf-writers , the late Henry Longhurst said , ‘ A good caddie is more than a mere assistant , he is guide , philosopher and friend . ’ |
| 20 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 21 | In this blithe seaside comedy , Depardieu reminds us that a great star is more than a great actor ; he is a creature people ca n't stop watching . ’ |
| 22 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 23 | The ‘ necessity ’ sought was not that of Newton 's grand mechanical scheme of iron laws and inescapable forces but was strong enough to sustain the thought that the international system is more than the constant and regular behaviour of its parts . |
| 24 | The Great Mother is more than a blind force of Nature . |
| 25 | Most of the members clung to the view that " the Labour Movement is more than an anti-Fascist Party … |
| 26 | To get both the 250 and the 125 race is more than I could have imagined . ’ |
| 27 | But one more day is more than I can bear — |
| 28 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 29 | This little rebellion annoyed the orthodox Communists , but maybe not the voters : the three rebels , all well known , provide voters with an assurance that the United Left is more than just a front for unreconstructed Communists . |
| 30 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |