Example sentences of "[adv] than just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems are likely to occur if there are several " actors " in the story — if , that is , the story is about Tom , Dick and Harry , rather than just William , for then simple pronominalisation is not always possible without ambiguity . |
| 2 | They agreed with our four focus areas , and agreed that our strategy of offering our employees and their skills , rather than just money was the right one . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ A key point was the fact that other people are saying that GA Life is good at administration , rather than just GA saying it . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 5 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 6 | If you 're out of the Ritz bracket , Hazlitt 's is one London hotel which gives you more than just bed and bath for a night at reasonable rates . |
| 7 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 8 | For Arnold Palmer it was more than just tradition and history that was driving him to win . |
| 9 | But we will endeavour to represent our members and to push for their ordinary rights , their just rights more than just rights they , are earned rights and should be afforded to them . |
| 10 | This grant , though , was more than just money . |
| 11 | To Abie Klugman , Celtic Crescent was more than just board and lodgings . |
| 12 | Bureaucratism for Trotsky was more than just maladministration or red tape . |
| 13 | It is possible that he suspected Margaret 's love for him was more than just admiration or affection . |
| 14 | Chapel services were , or should be , more than just opportunities to hear a sermon : when Major J. B. Pond , the American entrepreneur who arranged lecture tours for British writers visiting America , came to London in 1879 , he visited Spurgeon 's Metropolitan Tabernacle . |
| 15 | It was more than just fear of Gesner 's contempt . |
| 16 | His attitude was more than just mockery . |
| 17 | But it would have taken more than just time and ingenuity . |
| 18 | ‘ She 'll do a whole lot more than just growl if you do n't shut up and listen ! ’ |
| 19 | MOST couples feel they are walking on air on their wedding day — but for Sellafield 's Zoe Whittle and Terry Madrick it was more than just imagination . |
| 20 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |