Example sentences of "[pron] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 2 | It 's ju it 's melting my more than it is yours . |
| 3 | I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late . |
| 4 | And once again the motif is transpersonalized , for in the novel Shatov proves himself more than ordinarily resolute ; his paper Slavophilism does n't touch his human courage as husband and friend — and enemy . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never known anyone who enjoyed being himself more than Jack . |
| 6 | Faldo demeaned himself more than his intended targets with an ungracious speech after again conquering Muirfield . |
| 7 | In the last year , Henderson has proved himself more than a mere economic indicator by giving Lord Hanson a drubbing before he had even formally launched a takeover bid for ICI . |
| 8 | ’ Rocastle , as now he must , had played his part for Leeds but paced= himself more than he might have and still succumbed to cramp 15= minutes from time . |
| 9 | its More than pots I 'm stirring |
| 10 | Despite the often flagrant commercialism of its rather lightweight extravaganzas , the Palais has been running a deficit well beyond its more than C$2 million annual subsidy from the city . |
| 11 | They tend to be , characterized by the phrase ‘ its more than my job 's worth … ’ and may be termed petty officials . |
| 12 | Its more than my wage rise |
| 13 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 14 | Some 12 per cent of the world 's cultivated land is irrigated , of which more than half is affected to some extent by these problems which inevitably lead to a reduction in crop productivity , the very factor that such schemes were established to increase salinisation and waterlogging are particularly significant in arid and semiarid regions where irrigation is necessary for agriculture , and while they are important in developed nations , they are fast becoming major environmental problems in many developing nations . |
| 15 | According to Smil ( 1984 ) , severe erosion is now symptomatic of c. 80 per cent of the region , of which more than half is very seriously affected . |
| 16 | In deciding to take action over the aids to CNP , the Commission points to the unfairness of state subsidies in the ‘ fiercely competitive ’ ECU 280 000m EC chemical industry , in which more than a third of all production is traded between the 12 member states . |
| 17 | Today Verzy produces excellent , full-bodied wines , rich in fruit and of distinct style which more than deserve their recent elevation to grand cru status . |
| 18 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 19 | The office of collector of supply was one which held its value over time , for the salary appears to have increased at a rate which more than compensated the holder for the ravages of inflation . |
| 20 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
| 21 | It was , after all , the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else — at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement — originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire , giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged , absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples . |
| 22 | ( The charter still exists and the seal can be seen in the town museum , which more than repays a visit . ) |
| 23 | They repeated that he did n't need anything else because he would be back in the afternoon , which more than anything else they could have said made me wonder if we would ever see him again . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 25 | It is also to be found in the special character of the theory of language which more than any other was responsible for this development , that of the Swiss philologist and professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857–1913 ) . |
| 26 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 27 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 28 | There were 4,000 million hectares of forest left in the world , including 2,000 million hectares of rainforest , of which more than half was in Latin America . |
| 29 | Professor Charles Wilson views the effects of the Bubble as " salutary " , but considers that the taking over of so much of the South Sea Company 's excess stock by the Bank of England and East India Company perpetuated into the 1730s the situation in which more than half of the national debt was held by the great corporations . |
| 30 | Over 1,500 pigs are also raised annually , of which more than half are exported from the village . |