Example sentences of "more that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 2 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 3 | It hurt even more that friends like Tolkien , to whom he had dedicated The Screwtape Letters , could not respond to Lewis 's effusions as ‘ Everyman 's Theologian ’ . |
| 4 | It translates literally as ‘ consistent ’ but means more that things must be seen through . |
| 5 | ‘ If he tells me once more that his parents met at midnight on Hallowe'en and live in a riverside pub which is his and his brother 's — I do n't know what I 'll do ! ’ thought Jane . |
| 6 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 7 | It 's more that you just pick up on something . |
| 8 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 9 | Despite all this , and more that any fully researched biography of Karajan would reveal , it is a curious fact that writers of influence continue to play out their own strange fantasies when writing about the fictional Herbert von Karajan , a kind of latter-day Frankenstein 's monster of their own contriving . |
| 10 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 11 | And the market researchers tell the companies more and more that their customers want something more tailored to their special requirements . |
| 12 | The British have proved once more that the Channel is wider than the Atlantic . ’ |
| 13 | The more that scientists observe the oceans the more intricate they find them to be ; yet compared with the land they are straightforward . |
| 14 | The more that parents and industry provide the greater grows the temptation for government to provide less . |
| 15 | Choose the one you feel is attuned to you and your needs — — this can often be judged by the number of relevant questions asked ; the more that are asked , the better he is likely to be . |
| 16 | The more that a young horse can see and do , therefore , the better . |
| 17 | Some of the pieces began to fit but there was a great deal more that he wished to find out . |
| 18 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 19 | Scheherezade begins the long series of tales that constitute The Arabian Nights , so successfully stimulating the King 's curiosity to hear more that he constantly defers the order for her execution . |
| 20 | The more that you know about what is normal and expected in diseases the easier it will be to evaluate the Peculiars . |
| 21 | Within democratic societies like our own there is much more that librarians can do and should do against censorship . |
| 22 | The book traced back the history of the Teutons to an infinitely remote period : and it proved once more that the original German-Teuton race was the true creator of European civilisation . |
| 23 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 24 | We were talking just last night about how the people here seem to love us , and I said , ‘ Well , I do n't really take that personally — more that we were connected with a happening . ’ |
| 25 | I feel more that it was her father . |
| 26 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 27 | The dessert trolley ( £3.25 per portion ) was tempting , but I 'd recommend the cheese trolley loaded with all the French cheese you 've heard of and more that you have n't . |
| 28 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 29 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
| 30 | There was , it seemed , nothing more that they could do here , in the face of this masterly inactivity . |