Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 2 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 3 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 4 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 5 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 6 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 7 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 8 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 9 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 10 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 11 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 12 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 13 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 14 | You can only raise it two you ca n't raise it by more than the , what it is in the pot . |
| 15 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |
| 16 | When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply . |
| 17 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |