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 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Naturally enough , any nutritious medium is more than welcome for best growth . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A good caddie is more than a mere assistant . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Great Mother is more than a blind force of Nature . |
| 17 | Most of the members clung to the view that " the Labour Movement is more than an anti-Fascist Party … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |
| 21 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 22 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 23 | The Conservative case is more than a political ideal : it can be backed up by rigorous economic arguments . |
| 24 | I hope that Opposition Members will dissociate themselves from that comment , because Japanese and American investment is more than welcome here . |
| 25 | When we want to calculate the orbits of Voyager satellites in the space programme Newtonian mechanics is more than accurate for the purpose . |
| 26 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 27 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 28 | Lutyens 's ideal of an orderly life run by efficient , invisible servants is more than realised in this immaculately appointed domain . |
| 29 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 30 | A recent Soviet report from Kabul stated , for example , that ‘ the Soviet Union is more than anyone interested in the return home of its soldiers [ from Afghanistan ] . |