Example sentences of "there is more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 2 | To begin with , there is more than a hint of circularity about Eccleshall 's definition of Conservatism . |
| 3 | There is more than a hint of desperation in this unlikely selection . |
| 4 | There is more than enough statutory law around . |
| 5 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 6 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 7 | There is more than relief in outrunning or fighting off danger : there is a real pleasure . |
| 8 | Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs . |
| 9 | There is more than a hint of Art Nouveau in its decoration . |
| 10 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 11 | As the Ford booklet points out , there is more than enough of these demanding tasks to keep you busy . |
| 12 | There is more than passing irony in the very thought of a celibate Rangers . |
| 13 | There is more than an even chance that the end will , in the end , be changed by a wise deployment of the means . |
| 14 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 15 | The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management . |
| 16 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 17 | However , there is more than a chance that Brewer will take over Gary 's role as captain , and Alan 's place on the blindside of the scrum . |
| 18 | Though a little patchy , there is more than enough to keep fans happy and several killer cuts that show Nirvana already distilling the heady brew of metal , punk and pop which was to lead to Smells Like Teen Spirit — the track critics have called the best rock song ever . |
| 19 | If there is more than a certain amount , gravity will in due course draw the galaxies back together . |
| 20 | There is more than half the world 's coal — much of it in Manchuria ; half the world 's uranium — much of it in Australia ; half the world 's natural gas ; nine-tenths of the silk , 67 per cent of the cotton , 63 per cent of the wool ; huge iron mines , great deposits of silver and , it has lately been found , a girdle of epithermal gold lodged in the volcanic rocks from the Solomon Islands to northern Japan . |
| 21 | But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR . |
| 22 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 23 | There is more than ground for the suspicion that throughout , the second focus of Ritschl 's ellipse is the dominant one , and the first is made subservient to it . |
| 24 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 25 | In one sense , of course , there is more than enough knowledge available for everyone to have a sufficiency . |
| 26 | There is more than a hint of truth in what Alastair Hetherington , a former editor of The Guardian was told to explain how one defines news values : ‘ It 's like riding a bike ; if you stop to think about it , you 'll fall off . ’ |
| 27 | Did you stop to think that there is more than enough going on in Cambodia to make people reflect pretty carefully about participating in the election at all — and that the fact that 4.7m of them registered ( for which they received nothing whatsoever in material terms ) might just suggest that they really would like to exercise the vote ? |
| 28 | There is more than a touch of rags to riches in the story of the outsize barons . |
| 29 | There is more than a hint here of the subsequent legislation in restraint of alienation which was to result in the English statute of Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) . |
| 30 | Yet there is more than a simple , professional solution to an unusual but possible problem at sea . |