Example sentences of "[vb past] more [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large burghs retained more functions than the small which had given up ‘ most of their important functions to the surrounding county council ’ ( Wheatley 1969:25 ) . |
| 2 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 3 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 4 | ‘ Because you said Enid Blyton sold more copies than the Koran , ’ said Maisie , ‘ and said that pigs were terrific and Muslims had to learn to deal with them . ’ |
| 5 | In estimating the number of phonemes in spoken versions of words such as " autumn " and " session " both groups of poor spellers made more errors than a group of good spellers , regardless of whether or not they were good readers . |
| 6 | Not content to rest his case on the prudence with which the Holy Spirit had left astronomy out of the Scriptures , he proceeded to show that the miracle of Joshua 's long day made more sense if the text was read from a Copernican standpoint . |
| 7 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 8 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 9 | SANTA CLAUS probably got more letters than the Queen or Margaret Thatcher this year . |
| 10 | In addition , as smith , John Marscal had to repair the lord 's ploughs , and shoe the lord 's horses ; in return he got more land and a cow . |
| 11 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
| 12 | And they certainly needed more help than the school could give . |
| 13 | Those green shoots of economic spring here in the UK are beginning to feel a mite lonely as the gross domestic product figures from the US yesterday brought more evidence that the recovery there seems to have stalled , and analysts are redoing their sums on IBM Corp in light of recent information : Furman Selz removed the company from its recommended list and analyst Peter Lieu said he lowered his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates because of the extreme gross margin pressure on the mainframe business ; Bear Stearns & Co analyst Cliff Friedman cut his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates on IBM , but bravely maintains a hold rating on the stock ; he trimmed his 1993 estimates on IBM to break-even from $1.25 a share and cut his 1994 estimates to $2.25 , from $3.25 , again citing weak mainframe demand . |
| 14 | Be better we had more Scouts and a couple more Vet Sergeants on our side , is all . ’ |
| 15 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 16 | Every time we try to slip past Art 's table , there 'll be a pause , and then a thick whisper that beats its way right across the room , ‘ Tod Friendly : had more ass than a toilet seat . ’ |
| 17 | Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra had more fun than the audience in the comedy western Four for Texas ( 1963 ) , and in 1964 Bing Crosby joined Sinatra , Martin and Davis for Robin and the Seven Hoods . |
| 18 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 19 | The entire family seemed to be steeped in music and I understand that when a new harmonium was introduced in Spittal Chapel there was keen interest in comparing that with the one they owned — such as whether one had more stops than the other . |
| 20 | I opened them with my teeth and found that most had more flavour than the chicken . |
| 21 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |