Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 2 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 3 | Pointed comments are made about racial discrimination within the army , the insensitivity of television journalists , and uninformed liberal political views : indeed , the anti-war movement at home comes under more criticism than the NVA regulars entrenched at the top of the hill . |
| 4 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 5 | Walks on the beach also need to be undertaken with more caution if the tides are unknown . |
| 6 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 7 | A small , shallow valance approximately 15cm ( 6in ) deep , with more fullness than the curtains , would enhance the window 's appearance and would make very little difference to the light in the room . |
| 8 | It went faster and with more noise than the roundabouts for little children with engines and ducks and bicycles fixed on . |
| 9 | Scientists discovered the atom vibrates with more regularity than the earth turns on its axis . |
| 10 | The data get to the ground-based supercomputers through the TDRSS relay satellites , which can cope with more data than the SDS . |
| 11 | Despite their far longer involvement in the Middle East , the members of the European Community felt inhibited from acting with more resolution than the United States . |
| 12 | Soon you will look both slimmer and younger , and will walk with more confidence because the exercises will improve your posture . |
| 13 | Forcing his useless legs to work he made his way to the bridge , awkwardly at first , hobbling , as if in some grotesque mimicry of his wife , then with more confidence as the blood began to flow , his muscles come alive again . |
| 14 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 15 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 16 | These questions will be discussed in more detail once the elements of the offence have been outlined . |
| 17 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 18 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |