Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] more [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening . |
| 2 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 3 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 4 | A second , conservation-oriented design met with more approval but action was blocked by the imposition of an environmental safeguard on the area by the then Minister for Beni culturali Vincenza Bono Parrino , which permitted no more than monitoring and surveying to be carried out . |
| 5 | She had been afraid to tell Nancy 's story to Dr Losberne , since the good doctor was very excitable and often acted with more enthusiasm than wisdom . |
| 6 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 7 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 8 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 9 | When you received Mark 's letter it shocked you , contributed to more pain and agony , but in a way it was a release , a focus for all the anger and misery you 've felt at Mark 's death . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that a more adventurous policy would not have been justified ( even had it led to more mistakes and power cuts at the winter peak ) . |
| 11 | Carrington , a colonial , possibly in love , detached , watched all this with a definite slight unease and hoped the battle in the field was conducted with more competence and panache , not to say goodwill . |
| 12 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 13 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 14 | The Dickensian waiter flapped his napkin and advised with more truth than tact , ‘ Should n't have turbot today , sir , although the salmon 's passable . ’ |