Example sentences of "[adv prt] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 2 | It was as if his mind had a finite capacity for lines ; put in more than it could hold and they would start to overflow . |
| 3 | Moreover , although a great cult may have brought in more than enough wealth to compensate for the damage caused by those fleeing from the king 's anger , that wealth could still attract the attention of would-be thieves . |
| 4 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 5 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 6 | BNFL publicity manager said : ‘ The Visitors Centre is bringing in more and more people , which is good news for BNFL and the West cumbria tourism industry . ’ |
| 7 | He pushed me along more than anybody . |
| 8 | The figures were no more attractive at the operating level , where profits before exceptional items were down more than half at £31m and the combined contributions of the profitable elements-engineering , construction and mining-were a quarter lower at £58m . |
| 9 | For us , federalism means decentralisation : passing powers down more than passing them up . |
| 10 | For nearly two weeks they used very low currents , about 0.05 amps , and discovered that the cell cooled down more than expected . |
| 11 | There are many who dislike the idea of a front-rower calling the shots because the role of their position demands their heads to be down more than up . |
| 12 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 13 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 14 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 15 | This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail . |
| 16 | In 1991 , productivity rose about 3 per cent , which compared favourably with total Scottish manufacturing productivity , down more than 1 per cent . |
| 17 | No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells . |
| 18 | She 'll cry over more than that before she 's finished . ’ |
| 19 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 20 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |
| 21 | He seemed to bump into things and fall over more than other children . ’ |
| 22 | It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better ! |
| 23 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 24 | As they sat at breakfast , eating a meal hearty even by North Country standards , both of them chewed over more than their fried goodies . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope you have n't bitten off more than you can chew , Jenny , ’ I muttered to myself . |
| 26 | I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch . |
| 27 | The group also rewarded Egypt for its part in the Gulf alliance by agreeing to write off more than a third of the country 's debt to foreign governments . |
| 28 | But our two leaders had bitten off more than they could chew when they tried to make leaders out of the rest of us . |
| 29 | We attempt nothing in this school , and even if I 've bitten off more than we can chew here , it 's better to try — ’ |
| 30 | The Selmer/Adams polyester was rock hard , and thick , and many of those who attempted a quick refinish ( thanks Jimi ! ) found they 'd bitten off more than they could chew . |