Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From Friday to Sunday this week , the Autumn Franchise Exhibition at Birmingham 's NEC will provide a unique opportunity to meet more than 100 new and established franchise companies , under the umbrella of the BFA . |
| 11 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 12 | Chartered trains were due to leave Prague yesterday evening , but had failed to appear more than two hours after the appointed time . |
| 13 | And her willingness to suffer more if need be . |
| 14 | ( You may need to try more than one order before you find one that satisfies you . ) |
| 15 | PLANNING chiefs are set to block a controversial scheme to extract more than four million tonnes of rock from a green belt site at Elderslie in Renfrewshire . |
| 16 | The X-25 gateway to link Payroll to Chessington has been found to demand more or less exclusive use of a fast , large-memory machine . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall I live to write more than one novel , then ? ’ |
| 18 | When it is necessary to write more than one statement on a line , the statements may be separated by a colon " : " . |
| 19 | In such circumstances , it is clearly easier to establish more or less uniform procedures on a more or less informal basis , and to disseminate to the general public the sort of information which will generate trust . |
| 20 | Julian Wood , a partner with liquidators Sterling Ford , said there are ‘ significant deficiencies ’ with losses expected to total more than £200,000 . |
| 21 | Although Hungary 's trade surplus with the Soviet Union was expected to total more than US$1,000 million by the end of 1990 , it was estimated that the introduction of world market prices for Soviet oil exports would contribute to a US$1,500 million deterioration in Hungary 's current account in 1991 . |
| 22 | The council 's working party on grants to cultural organisations took no decision on payments expected to total more than £2 million in 1993-94 . |
| 23 | FINANCIAL advisers and fund management companies authorised by the Financial Services Act could have to find more than £37m to compensate investor losses — a threefold rise in 12 months . |
| 24 | If Spot , who won more than £1,500 for owner John Adams before being struck down by cancer , can resume his winning ways , it 'll be a bonus for his connections , who had to find more than £250 for his two operations . |
| 25 | Leeds Diocese has to find more than £1 million a year towards the cost of Catholic schools . |
| 26 | In written language , rather heavily premodified noun phrases ( like that one ) are quite common — it is rare in spoken language to find more than two premodifying adjectives and there is a strong tendency to structure the short chunks of speech so that only one predicate is attached to a given referent at a time ( simple case-frame or one-place predicate ) as in : it 's a biggish cat + tabby + with torn ears , or in : old man McArthur + he was a wee chap + oh very small + and eh a beard + and he was pretty stooped . |
| 27 | In temperate countries , high worm burdens are uncommon and in Britain , for example , only one outbreak has been recorded , occurring in young cattle housed in a damp yard ; in sheep it is unusual to find more than 50 adult worms . |
| 28 | Graham and Mark have been asked to find more than £500 to repair the hallway or risk being evicted . |
| 29 | Britain 's had to provide more than £27 billion ( $17 billion ) against bad loans over that period . |
| 30 | This meant that often we were called on to provide more than one cutter the larger operations when sometimes the whole cutter fleet would be involved in shadowing or static surveillance . |