Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 2 | I never have more than the permitted amount of duty-free goods ; I 've never imported plants , or dogs , or drugs , or uncooked meat , or firearms ; and yet I constantly find myself wanting to turn the wheel and head for the Red Channel . |
| 3 | A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research . |
| 4 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 5 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 6 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 7 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 8 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 9 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 10 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 11 | Although there were delays in the criminal courts , they seldom lasted more than a few months . |
| 12 | They are very much a part of the scene nowadays and they certainly deserve more than a derisory four laps . |
| 13 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 14 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 15 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 16 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 17 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 18 | It clearly includes more than the original twelve disciples . |
| 19 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 20 | It certainly means more than the absence of negligence . |
| 21 | Mystery Miguel , they call him , and he never does more than a couple of songs . |
| 22 | But it never lasts more than an hour whatever he does . |