Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 2 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 3 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 4 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 5 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 6 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 7 | Fired by religious fervour and armed with weapons supplied by the United States and their Muslim neighbour Pakistan , the rebels resisted doggedly and fought a war in which their superior mobility and unconventional guerrilla tactics proved more than a match for the Soviet military machine . |
| 8 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 9 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 10 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 11 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 12 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 13 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 14 | Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums . |
| 15 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 16 | According to Bill Martin , economist at UBS-Phillips & Drew : ‘ The only thing the Chancellor fears more than the currency speculators are the rows of blue rinses at Blackpool next week ’ . |
| 17 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 18 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 19 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 20 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 21 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 22 | In the Netherlands , the task of refining and extending the revolutionary concept of the Woonerf and separately applying its most valuable elements continues more than a decade after its inception . |
| 23 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 24 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 25 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 26 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |
| 27 | A team has a mix of people who contribute in different but complementary ways thus achieving synergy , ie the team produces more than the sum of its individuals . |
| 28 | The results for those universities producing more than a total of 10 theses on Scottish geology between 1960 and 1983 are shown ranked as Table 5 — Changes in proportion of Scottish geology theses with time . |
| 29 | But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim . |
| 30 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |