Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 2 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 3 | MEDICS and police last night worked for more than an hour to rescue a teenage girl who fell 30ft down a railway embankment . |
| 4 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 5 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 6 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 7 | Consent of the shareholders by ordinary resolution is required , unless the articles permit the board to sanction payments without shareholder approval , or provide that a resolution passed by more than a simple majority of shareholders must be obtained . |
| 8 | He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up . |
| 9 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |