Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chancellor faces Budget decisions of more than the usual complexity |
| 2 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 3 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 4 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 5 | As an extreme right-winger , I have read your recent post-apocalypse editions with more than the usual merriment . |
| 6 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 7 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 8 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
| 9 | Add up the value of your home , car , shares and belongings and you may well find you are worth more than the current threshold . |
| 10 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 11 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 12 | On internal British politics , Ken speaks for more than the Labour leadership might imagine , but when he leaves England for abroad he starts to get very muddled-up . |
| 13 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 14 | If it is sold for more than the final payment , a small profit has been made in cash terms . |
| 15 | Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below . |
| 16 | But in fact , towards the climax of the disease , there was very little of me left , in more than the physiological sense . |
| 17 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 18 | My anorak served as armour in more than the literal sense : it protected me , as anorexia protected me , from the confusing impingements of reality as defined by others at home or at school , and who could not even agree among themselves , on my behalf . |
| 19 | I was left in more than the literal darkness . |
| 20 | The glistening palm leaves of Bob Crowley 's immense , jungly set enclose a tin-roofed veranda where Tennessee William 's outcasts are melting from more than the Mexican weather . |
| 21 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 22 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 23 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 24 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 25 | As soon as the slimmer returned to normal eating all the lost weight would return , plus more because the metabolic rate is reduced when subjected to a starvation diet . |
| 26 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 27 | For the following nine seasons the club has guaranteed not to increase these season ticket prices by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 28 | The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 29 | Conservative support among the over-65s was lower than in 1979 , indeed dropping by more than the national average . |
| 30 | Crime recorded in the Central South region last year rose by more than the national average . |