Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 31 | With sterling now at a considerably lower rate against the Deutschmark , French franc , the currencies of the Benelux countries and the dollar , which together account for more than 50 per cent of Scotland 's export trade , the impact will be significant . |
| 32 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 33 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 34 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 35 | Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims . |
| 36 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 37 | All these variables , however , were similar to those of normal subjects in the 15 patients re-evaluated after 12 months of gluten free diet as well as in the 35 patients who were treated for more than one year , who were all in clinical , biochemical , and histological remission . |
| 38 | The most popular ‘ donor car ’ is the Ford Cortina , with Jaguar parts favoured for more powerful vehicles . |
| 39 | On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time . |
| 40 | If a further control , such as social class , is added then interrelated controls can make the specifications very limited — the interviewer having to find two women aged 30 to 55 , of lower middle-class — towards the quota of 20. obviously , independent controls make life easier for interviewers , and interrelated controls make for more definitely representative samples . |
| 41 | Drama is easier to convey than analysis , rather as the political decisions of kings and queens make for more comprehensible history in the schoolroom than do gradual shifts in economic and social patterns . |
| 42 | I understand that criticism and controversy make for more interesting articles . |
| 43 | Should your flight be delayed for more than two hours after the scheduled departure time , Enterprise will provide the following : |
| 44 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 45 | Later concerning pedestrians , she hopes that a pedestrian requiring an eight second gap to cross a stream of 600 veh/hr will not be delayed for more than 30 seconds . |
| 46 | The caravan interests , on the other hand , argued the case for recognition of caravanning as an acceptable way of life and pressed for more positive approaches by the local authorities . |
| 47 | Three months ago , when Brian Mulroney announced his intention to retire after more than eight years as prime minister , it looked virtually certain that his successor as Conservative leader would be the bright and effervescent minister of defence , Kim Campbell . |
| 48 | Ethiopia , whose independence was recognized by the European colonial powers in 1896 , was dominated for more than 50 years ( apart from the period of the Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941 ) by Haile Selassie , who was regent , then King and eventually Emperor until his deposition in 1974 . |
| 49 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 50 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 51 | BASIC and its dialects were designed for more limited machines . |
| 52 | The pans are specially designed for more efficient cooking with a unique Thermocopper base — a ‘ sandwich ’ of stainless steel , aluminium and copper — and are ideal for cooking on all heat sources ( except induction ) . |
| 53 | ‘ Let us please seek for more stronger motives . ’ |
| 54 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 55 | May I appeal for more sixth-form entries for the 14th International Physics Olympiad ? |
| 56 | After verification of the effect of the typesetting code combinations they were substituted for more computer-recognisable codes to simplify further processing . |
| 57 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 58 | These were apparently the two qualities which Mr Alfred Bestall attributed to the character of Rupert the Bear which he drew for more than 30 years . |
| 59 | If you are held from getting airborne or landing for more than 5 minutes by our AIR/GROUND radio , we will give you your lesson free ! ! |
| 60 | True , giving him pride of place entails an insulting belittlement of her passionate romantic friendships with women ; not least the one she maintained for more than thirty years with Sue Gilbert , her dearest Other , and eventually — bitter blow — her sister-in-law . |