Example sentences of "[be] [adj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each item included in creditors due after one year , disclose separately : amounts payable otherwise than by instalments more than five years hence amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 2 | amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 4 | HMIs have clearly sensed that in launching their series of studies , even if their highly focused character may convey the subliminal message that they are interested more in mechanisms and techniques than in broader perspectives . |
| 5 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
| 6 | After due allowance for cultural , social and economic differences of individual financial systems , most countries ' banks are identifiable more by their basic similarities than differences . |
| 7 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're negative more than positive . ’ |
| 9 | I would actually ask the Harrogate Borough Council , where are these more environmentally sensitive sites in Harrogate than the Valley , the Beck and the Crag ? |
| 10 | I share his dislike of the practice , but he should be aware , as he points his finger , that there are three more pointing back at him . |
| 11 | International conferences could provide the vehicle for international co-operation and co-ordination , but apart from the few international conferences organized by the British Library and by the International Association of Technological University Libraries ( IATUL ) there have not been many more than a dozen , and none of these has focused on the need for international co-ordination ; although they have kindled a certain amount of international co.operation . |
| 12 | Women , because of their cycles of menstruation and childbearing , are impure more often than men . |
| 13 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 14 | For the fouir lives he was forced to take he knows there are many more he has saved , and he says ’ sometimes you have to do some bad to do some good ’ . |
| 15 | Even though there are many more than two characters in each book , I have chosen this number from each , as one of the characters from one book is very similar in comparison to that in the other . |
| 16 | The best companies are able more readily to make alliances or purchase technology or be welcomed into countries other than their own , or obtain financial consideration from banks or shareholders , or escape some of the more scathing criticisms which can be so damaging to a company if produced in the public arena . |
| 17 | Too often school examinations are concerned more with remembering than with understanding and applying knowledge . |
| 18 | The remaining ones ( needle return levers , jacquard , LiLi ) , are concerned more with needle selection than the actual knitting of stitches . |
| 19 | While legal accountability is primarily directed towards providing protection for the individual against administrative discretion , political and managerial accountability are concerned more with the provision of an account of why funds were disbursed in a particular manner and what results or benefits thereby resulted . |
| 20 | In this brief section , however , we are concerned more with the way in which multimedia elements can be integrated into an orthodox text-and-data database environment and how multimedia can be described in the same logical terms as the conventional elements with existing database structures . |
| 21 | To young people who are concerned more with the immediate needs of finding employment than with their leisure interests as adults , this argument may well be a powerful one . |
| 22 | That 's two different kinds of love though then , love , loving your neighbour I suppose is the widest sense and er and the love between a parent and child , are those more recognisable as , as true love if you like than the kind of romantic love , sexual love that we 've been talking about , yes |
| 23 | Right so after nineteen forty five there cer there certainly would have been a momentum towards this in the areas where there 'd been a strong Japanese presence because there would be more collaborators and there would be some more obvious targets . |
| 24 | I 'm further more interested in the subtle differences in places than the obvious landmarks . ’ |
| 25 | For a moment , the sinister thought occurred to me that there might be another more efficient British reporter lurking on the beach . |
| 26 | ‘ If anything had survived , ’ Alexei objected , ‘ there would be another more advanced civilisation . |
| 27 | ‘ All in all we feel we now have better control over our customer file and can be pro-active more than reactive . |
| 28 | Two of these have been found eaten away … but there could be hundreds more . |
| 29 | ‘ I fear there will be hundreds more Ben Silcock type tragedies . ’ |
| 30 | Indeed in many authorities permanence may be characteristic more of councillors and committee chairmen than the nominally ‘ permanent ’ officials who advise them . |