Example sentences of "[verb] more [subord] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 2 | I do n't feel I can face more than a snack in this heat … ’ |
| 3 | But the community care reforms imply more than a shift in the location of care . |
| 4 | Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise . |
| 5 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
| 6 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 7 | To give more power to the carver 's elbow there are now a wide range of electric carving systems , and here we test a selection of machines and tools that may offer more than a saving in time |
| 8 | Actually , I had more than a hand in it ; I designed all of Crate 's new tube line , even though it does n't have my name on it . |
| 9 | Nigel Kennedy 's been known to spend more than an hour in the shop after a game , on one visit he spent four hundred pounds . |
| 10 | This principle was carried further by the House of Lords ' decision in Williams and Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 408 , which found that a wife who made a financial contribution to the purchase of a house acquires more than an interest in the proceeds of sale : she acquires an interest in the land itself , which can take effect as an overriding interest , in the case of registered land , under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ( g ) . |
| 11 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |