Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 2 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 6 | Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims . |
| 7 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the kindergarten 's fervour for imperial federation declined during the First World War , when the strength of dominion nationalism became apparent , and they moved towards more informal notions of imperial co-operation . |
| 11 | Farmers would be required to produce farm management plans , and those who moved towards more extensive systems would be rewarded . |
| 12 | In the 1950s Goodman moved into more social photography for William Hickey , as well as fashion for magazines such as the Gentlemen 's Quarterly , using trend-setters such as Douglas Fairbanks Jnr , Patrick Lichfield and David Hicks to model clothes . |
| 13 | In short , the album grew out of Morrissey 's fevered mind and moved into more journalistic areas . |
| 14 | In more recent years , Whessoe has laid off a number of men , and moved into more specialist fields , but it is still one of only a few companies listed on the Stock Exchange to have its headquarters in the North-East . |
| 15 | When the Antwerp market began to contract , he diversified into more risky ventures . |
| 16 | The high point of the day came when the Queen mingled with more than 1,200 guests invited to the Secretary of State 's annual garden party . |
| 17 | A stir and a murmur passed round the watching brothers , and softly they drew in more closely about the wonder . |
| 18 | The principal recommendation of the Working Party was that the number of mandatory design and furniture standards be reduced from fourteen to six couched in more general terms to permit greater freedom of interpretation . |
| 19 | Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished . |
| 20 | Mr Friere , who used to call his gallery fiction/non-fiction , decided to change its name when the gallery recently moved to more spacious quarters on Prince St. |
| 21 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 22 | The death toll from an army offensive launched on Saturday rose to more than 60 as the federal forces pounded targets from the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik to the besieged Danube river town of Vukovar . |
| 23 | Protector Somerset held the number of privy councillors around twenty , but under the Duke of Northumberland it rose to more than thirty . |
| 24 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |
| 25 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 26 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 27 | When she 'd finished it she moved on more slowly this time , stopping twice for a fit of coughing . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) referred to more genuine equality for women . |
| 29 | In the second and third years , he concentrated on more sustained studies through arranging short and Terminal courses under Chapter III arrangements as well as continuing to provide many village lectures . |
| 30 | A TOP Co Antrim motorcycle ace today spoke of how he thought he was going to die when he crashed at more than 150mph during a race at the North West 200 . |