Example sentences of "in [noun] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a severe , worn pressure of thought about his temples , a fire in his eye ( as if he saw something in objects more than outward appearance ) , an intense , high , narrow forehead , a Roman nose , cheeks furrowed by a strong purpose , and a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth , a good deal at variance with the solemn , stately expression of |
| 2 | They 're exclusive to Club 18–30 and are set back from the main road in t more peaceful location , although the busy centre of Benitses with all its bars , discos and tavernas is within easy walking distance . |
| 3 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 4 | He may recall that in Germany more than 3 million people are unemployed and he may bear it in mind that a higher proportion of people are in work in this country than in Germany or in any other European country except Denmark . |
| 5 | Cleveland Police have repeated an appeal for information about Leslie Simms , 70 , who has not been seen since he left an old person 's home in Middlesbrough more than three weeks ago . |
| 6 | The five point try should at least ensure that the ball is in play more often . |
| 7 | I was in Mitchenham more than a marginal , which sadly the Tories retained and my own seat in Wantage , which also is a safe Tory seat . |
| 8 | Like all penguins gentoos have tremendous swimmers and divers , and when preparing to come ashore they frequently ‘ porpoise ’ along in groups more like fish than birds . |
| 9 | In addition more detailed information is obtained on occasion in order to satisfy the needs of ad hoc detailed projects . |
| 10 | It was estimated that in addition more than 500,000 paediatric AIDS cases resulting from perinatal transmission ( spread of AIDS from an infected mother to her foetus or new-born baby ) , had occurred , with over 90 per cent of this total in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 11 | In addition more complex and diffuse forms of accountability hedge public managers in ways which have no parallel in the private sector . |
| 12 | In addition more and more departments are exploiting the new technology in their teaching . |
| 13 | There 's traffic chaos in the region tonight with thousands of motorists caught up in tailbacks more than seven miles long . |
| 14 | Sometimes , however , national rules which are in practice more likely to affect companies from other member states may nevertheless be justifiable if their purpose is consistent with the aims of the single market and any effect on non-national companies is purely incidental . |
| 15 | There is , however , an alternative device which is in practice more commonly used ; this is repeated premultiplication by A of an arbitrary column unc as in 2.6.2 . |
| 16 | Again , retention of client loyalty is in practice more easily achieved by effective notification . |
| 17 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 18 | — holding this second baby Ellen puts me in mind more and more of Oreste and I grieve to have him . |
| 19 | Earth Report ( 1988 ) , for example , states that in Pakistan more than 65 per cent of the country 's 150 000 km 2 of irrigated land are thus affected ; in Egypt 35 per cent of farmland has salinity and waterlogging problems and in Iraq and India the situation is similarly acute . |
| 20 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 21 | A second survivor , a negro shoemaker called Leon Leandre , had an equally lucky escape , but in circumstances more difficult to understand , since he was not below ground like Ciparis , and several companions around him were all killed outright : |
| 22 | This is often explained in terms of making the element in question more prominent or emphasizing it , an explanation which some may find confusing . |
| 23 | The high number of farms with adult cattle was surprising especially in areas more suited to breeding stock . |
| 24 | Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement . |
| 25 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 26 | Breeds in wet swamps and bogs ; in winter more often in dry places . |
| 27 | In winter more confined to coast than Herring and Lesser Black-back. 25–31 in. ( 64 79 cm . ) . |
| 28 | Breeds higher up in mountains , and in winter more often in semi-deserts. 6 ½in . |
| 29 | Here was a young man learned in the New Testament and in the early Fathers ; thinking hard for himself ; manifestly a lover of God and of the gospel ; an Anglo-Catholic but one who spoke in tones more persuasive to Protestants than was usual among Anglo-Catholics , with tolerance , and respect , and a gratitude for all that was best in the Protestant tradition . |
| 30 | In the recital series , Demidenko ( inspired by a series given by the great Anton Rubinstein in Russia more than a century ago ) will explore the development of music for piano from the 18th century to the 20th . |