Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [conj] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 2 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 3 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 4 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 5 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 6 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 7 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 8 | As the Opposition believe that taxes , particularly local taxes , should be based on ability to pay , is it not absolutely scandalous that they suggest that the elderly and the single , whatever house they live in , should have to pay more than those with the ability to pay and are not willing to grant a discount ? |
| 9 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |
| 10 | At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn . |
| 11 | It 's likely in consequence to become more and more of an irrelevance , and that seems to me profoundly sad — especially given the examples it was established to uphold . |