Example sentences of "more than [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 2 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 3 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 4 | A PUBLICAN faces jail after being convicted of causing the death of a 16-year-old jogger by driving dangerously while more than twice over the drink drive limit . |
| 5 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 6 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 7 | The school 's headteacher Mary Parkin said the line of coins stretched more than twice round the hall . |
| 8 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 9 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 10 | Not a bad idea to remind them of this more than once during the development of an estate ; and remember , acting for either seller or buyer , that on the granting of a long lease of a flat a plan is essential . |
| 11 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 12 | As they talked , they came back more than once to the mystery of the three files which Derek had been shown . |
| 13 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 14 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |
| 15 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 16 | Each calls for political decision , frequently more than once in the course of hammering out a policy . |
| 17 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 18 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 19 | Hence , fathers are counted once only in the birth certificate analysis , but may appear more than once in the interview analysis . |
| 20 | Then there were ads , more than ever for the sake of the season . |
| 21 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 22 | ‘ I have a great fear , ’ she whispered , more than ever with the voice of a seagull . |
| 23 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 24 | The intention was not to show the Alien at full length , if possible , and indeed he is scarcely seen more than fleetingly before the end , when he is ejected from the shuttle craft of the destroyed Nostromo by its last survivor , Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) . |
| 25 | Then there was the reality that yes our three tropical experts had flown through the questionnaire stage and impressed the producer more than sufficiently at the interview stage and they would now be appearing in front of 14 million viewers , battling it out with another team , unknown until the actual day . |
| 26 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |