Example sentences of "with more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 2 | Inhuman stabbed with more than human force , |
| 3 | ‘ You 're still applying for the wrong jobs , ’ she said , with more than a hint of exasperation . |
| 4 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 5 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |
| 6 | Hong Kong was always a free-wheeling , highly materialistic city , with more than its full share of pirates and crooks . |
| 7 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 8 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 9 | It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon . |
| 10 | Although the glossy articles provide a relentlessly positive approach to an area with more than its fair share of disadvantages , the guide is packed with useful practical information on , for example , restaurants , wine bars , developments and estate agents . |
| 11 | In the middle of the spectrum , however , are perceptions with more than a hint of approval or disapproval implicit in them : perceptions of each party 's electoral chances ; perceptions of whether national economic performance and prospects are improving or declining ; and images of the parties and party leaders . |
| 12 | The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types . |
| 13 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 14 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 15 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't tell you here , ’ Bodo muttered , with more than a touch of impatience . |
| 17 | Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 . |
| 18 | Only three in 10 were diet ignorers compared with more than half the men . |
| 19 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 20 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 21 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 22 | Then it will be abolished , along with more than half the country 's other trains . |
| 23 | This is a rich , satisfying casserole with more than a taste of the exotic , but which could be included in nearly any dinner party menu . |
| 24 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 25 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 26 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 27 | She saw herself pull back her arm , and , with more than human strength , launch a red missile . |
| 28 | Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving . |
| 29 | He gave it the significance of a personal belief and turning lazily in his chair to inform Charles with more than a trace of arrogance , ‘ Old Guards ’ proverb . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The scheme will be more attractive to producers with more than 80ha , who are exempt from small-producer refunds , ’ says Mr Bent . |