Example sentences of "[verb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8 No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 2 | The view is gaining ground that , if Ms Campbell does not win more than 40% of the delegates ' votes on the first ballot , Mr Charest will take the crown with the help of Mr Edwards 's backers . |
| 3 | No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 4 | No competitor may win more than one prize . |
| 5 | 11 No entrant can win more than one prize . |
| 6 | This announcement gained her a very wry glance and she fumed more as she read his looks . |
| 7 | The ordinance of 26 August 1944 stipulated that the same person could not direct more than one publication . |
| 8 | He had barely addressed more than a few brief and studiously polite words to her — and yet every fibre of her being was vibrantly aware of his magnetic , almost menacing presence . |
| 9 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |
| 10 | Reason and Mycielska refer to this as a ‘ time-gap experience ’ and found that more than half their sample of 85 psychology undergraduates and postgraduates reported such experiences as happening more than once a month . |
| 11 | According to my cousin Violet , it is happening more and more in America . ’ |
| 12 | IT 'S NEVER EASY to tell , when something seems to be happening more and more , whether there is a genuine trend or merely an excessive zeal of reporting . |
| 13 | ‘ This sort of thing is happening more and more because the criminals think they can get away with it . |
| 14 | This is happening more and more . |
| 15 | The police and the academics say driver fatigue accidents are happening more and more frequently . |
| 16 | It seems to be happening more and more . |
| 17 | ‘ Once we get people in a bookshop we can sell books to them , and most of them will buy more than one . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't buy more because the price is shooting up — too much buying . |
| 19 | I have possibly the world 's largest collection of old Springfield external stats and would cheerfully buy more if there were still available . |
| 20 | In time it became customary to grant more than one reversion to an office , so that a queue of expectant administrators could be seen waiting to step successively into a dead man 's shoes . |
| 21 | Rumours over the weekend were that the food manufacturers who supply more than £50m worth of goods to Gateway each week are concerned about extending further credit . |
| 22 | Most career jobs expect people to work more than nine-to-five hours , to travel abroad or move house if necessary , maybe to attend conferences at weekends or socialise in the evenings ; in short , to put work before family . |
| 23 | Britain won a special arrangement , to be reviewed in ten years , allowing Britons who wish to work more than 48 hours a week to do so . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 25 | Hon. Members might be happy to consider a 48-hour rule , but the farming community , to name but one , would find it extremely difficult at harvest time if they were not allowed to ask their farm workers to work more than 48 hours a week . |
| 26 | Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light . |
| 27 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 28 | Instrumental analytical techniques such as gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry can separate , identify and measure the concentrations of the major components of an ‘ odorant ’ , though even this is fraught with difficulty as odorous gases from a rendering plant for example have been known to contain more than 30 components . |
| 29 | Each circuit can feed up to 12 lighting points , but in practice it is wise to restrict this to a maximum of eight , to allow for some to contain more than one bulb . |
| 30 | A bomb estimated to contain more than 400 lb of dynamite was detonated outside La Macarena bullring in the centre of the city of Medellín on Feb. 16 , killing 22 people , 10 of them police , and injuring 135 others . |