Example sentences of "count [prep] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 2 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 3 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 4 | To the untrained eye , pretty pictures count for more than interesting spectra ; neither are they without scientific interest . |
| 5 | It may be that , in practice , the norms and practices of the various CNAA subject boards count for more than such general sentiments . |
| 6 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 7 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 8 | Academic ability was to count for more than ‘ redness ’ and class background , offering a ‘ new dawn ’ ( ZGQN 1988 ( 1 ) : 2 ) for China 's youth . |
| 9 | In such circumstances the opinions and interests of those most directly affected ought to count for more than the opinions of those of us who are only marginally affected , if at all . |
| 10 | Left hand Pillar Crack , besides having a name redolent of times when tradition counted for more than imagination , is a superb little layback testpiece . |
| 11 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |