Example sentences of "[det] more [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
2 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
3 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
4 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
5 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
6 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
7 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
8 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
9 | And I ca n't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players . |
10 | Thought you were n't putting any more cos of the cats . |