Example sentences of "[det] more [noun] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did go for one short walk in the cool overcast , just along the beach to the south end of the island and back , then I stayed in and watched some more television when the rain came on , carried on a low wind , glummuttering against the window . |
| 2 | Uranium U two three five U two three eight , the only difference is o ones got a few more neutrons than the other . |
| 3 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 4 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 5 | Again , we are only really concerned with two intervals and their inversions , but it must be noticed that one is much more dissonant than the other . |
| 6 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 7 | If a local authority has any matter to propose for the good of local government in general or for any particular section of local government , this should invariably be done through the appropriate local authority association , for if supported by the association it will carry much more weight than the proposal of a single local authority . |
| 8 | His response underlines how much more royalist than the king were some of his judges and how the dividing line between church and crown jurisdiction was under more pressure from the king 's subjects and agents than from the king himself or from any royal policy . |
| 9 | On the other hand these accruals accounts have provided much more information than the cash accounts . |
| 10 | There will be many more surprises before the year is out . |
| 11 | How many more years before the bonus cancels itself out ? |
| 12 | Clearly Study 2 differs from Study 1 in many more ways than the fact that subjects were not actually driving — the range of situations used was dramatically different , individual junctions were repeated , there was no obvious navigational context , and so on . |
| 13 | The IMF is likely to refuse to lend any more money until the budget is settled , but the government hopes it will just about manage , helped by lower oil prices . |
| 14 | The matter came to the Chancery Division where B and L tried to obtain an injunction restraining the receivers from selling any more property until the question of the disputed remuneration had been settled ( see Rottenberg & Others v Monjack & Another , The Times , 2 July 1992 ) . |