Example sentences of "[adj] more [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 2 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 3 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 4 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 5 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 6 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
| 7 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
| 8 | And I ca n't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players . |
| 9 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |