Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 2 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 3 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 4 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 6 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 7 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 8 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 9 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 10 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 11 | If neural networks are ever to become more than a lab curiosity with the odd exotic application in the real world , Intel Corp 's new Ni1000 chip , developed with Providence , Rhode Island-based Nestor Inc should provide the breakthrough . |
| 12 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 13 | Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated . |
| 14 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 15 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 16 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 17 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 18 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 19 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 20 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 21 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 22 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 23 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 24 | And if you 're buying the car on a loan or HP agreement , you might well owe more than the car is worth — your loss again ! |
| 25 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 26 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 27 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 28 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 29 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 30 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |