Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] more [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 2 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 3 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 4 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 5 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 6 | Nigel Kennedy 's been known to spend more than an hour in the shop after a game , on one visit he spent four hundred pounds . |
| 7 | In just the same way , the Lord 's prayer trusts that God will provide our daily bread ; He is n't asked to provide more than the basics . |
| 8 | This was illustrated most illuminatingly by a recent study in which a group of people were asked to eat more than a pound of potatoes each day ( baked in their skins , not fried ) in addition to whatever other food they could manage to eat . |
| 9 | His literary proteges were allowed to publish more and the film industry also prospered . |