Example sentences of "on more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Rose 's review of the Gallup survey on twenty political issues found that majorities of voters for all three parties agree with each other on more than two-thirds of all issues , that most Alliance voters agree with the national majority on nineteen of twenty issues , and that most Conservative and Labour voters with the majority on seventeen of twenty issues . |
| 2 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 3 | And from Spike Lee to Reverend Jesse Jackson , Michael Jordan to Philip Michael Thomas , black movers and shakers now shape US opinion on more than just race . |
| 4 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |
| 5 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 6 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 7 | However , success does depend on more than restructuring the membership . |
| 8 | For the new government , economic regeneration rested on more than mere control of public expenditure . |
| 9 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 10 | On more than occasion New Scientist — and at least one science editor from a leading newspaper , to our knowledge — has told the BA that the press can afford to pay for their own drinks and for those of their less wealthy friends who do n't have the same access to expenses . |
| 11 | She 's a tough , single-minded lady who has n't achieved her present position without treading on more than a few toes . |
| 12 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 13 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |
| 14 | I did n't want to place myself in the hands of someone who might insist on more than I was prepared to give . |
| 15 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 16 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 17 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 18 | The Vision 's control fascia is so good looking that it will turn on more than just the gas . |
| 19 | This approach does not solve the problem of continuity that depends on more than the single preceding node . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone did ask us for some nude photos as well , ’ frowns Sam , desperately , ‘ But I reckon that was just people trying it on more than anything else . ’ |
| 21 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 22 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 23 | Yet Mr Salinas 's government will have to rely on more than contacts ; tight money and high real interest rates are likely for the predictable future . |
| 24 | To quote the dictionary again , the word ‘ adventure ’ contains in it an element of the unexpected , of chance and Fate , which means that the protagonist must be able to call on more than normal attributes to meet the challenge set for him . |
| 25 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 26 | It argues on more than equal terms with Marxism , Existentialism , Nationalism , Capitalism . |
| 27 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 28 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
| 29 | Secondly , the workbook encourages the students to understand their patient as a complex person whose health and wellbeing depend on more than biomedical considerations . |
| 30 | GUIL : He 's always talking about us — there are n't two people living who he dotes on more than us . |