Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 2 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 3 | All too often , the antecedents of revolution are separated by more than a human lifespan from their fruition . |
| 4 | In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price . |
| 5 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 6 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 7 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 8 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 9 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 10 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 11 | Naïve unsophisticated statements such as these marked a regeneration which perhaps must be experienced by more than a handful of prisoners if we are to care enough about civilization to want to save it . |
| 12 | Jobs at BR 's Eastern Region headquarters in York would be cut by more than a quarter as work was contracted out and staffing levels cut back together with train services . |
| 13 | Ginseng is another alternative , but it is expensive and should not be taken for more than a month , as doctors suspect it is harmful to those who have high blood pressure . |
| 14 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 15 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |
| 16 | Smith Opon Acak , all of whom had been detained for more than a year , appeared in court in January 1990 charged with plotting to overthrow the government , having " levied war against the government of Uganda " between Nov. 2 and 18 , 1987 . |
| 17 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
| 18 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 19 | Both the economic efficiency and neo-Austrian schools of thought express concern about the views of a third school which either has some fairly broad concept of the public interest as its stated objective , or in practice is motivated by more than a concern for economic efficiency and/or competition . |
| 20 | Perhaps Mr Heseltine 's sudden interest in television is motivated by more than a simple desire to boost British exports . |
| 21 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |
| 22 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 23 | As far as Ipswich is concerned , with the exception of the community psychiatric nurse , no one service was received by more than a minority of either sample . |