Example sentences of "more [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sites together recorded almost 100,000 more birds than the average for the past five years . |
| 2 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 3 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 4 | I could see Myrtle Augee , Mary Berkeley and Tessa Sanderson , all waving and shouting , seeming to make more noise than the rest of the stadium . |
| 5 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 6 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 7 | Focus groups said they would pay more taxes if the cost of the Federal machine was cut , and so Clinton announces with great fanfares a 25 per cent cut in White House staff . |
| 8 | What was not known , but emerged from experiment , is that the top and bottom halves of the RAM have different sensitivities - the top ‘ sees ’ more pixels than the bottom at a given illumination and exposure . |
| 9 | Any one of these teams could inflict more damage than a wing of Luftwaffe bombers in the Second World War . |
| 10 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 11 | Product mix improved with the export of more manufactures and the import of fewer luxury consumer goods . |
| 12 | This would be an on-going promotional campaign along the lines of what we already do , but with more co-ordination and the addition of posters and a greater number of redesigned Promotional leaflets ( to replace existing ones ) . |
| 13 | I 've gone it alone more times than a hermit with attitude . |
| 14 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 15 | But I do n't think they can go voting themselves more money whilst the rest of us have trouble in finding work . |
| 16 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 17 | Nothing could give us more pleasure than the sharing of a discovery in art and the process of seeing it transformed by my adjoining restoration studio and framing workshop into its full beauty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Recently , the recovery of more texts and the reassessment of those long known have shown that many of the accepted similarities are in fact illusory . |
| 20 | Then more correspondence and a meeting with some of the people who report to him , to review matters , look at management accounts and discuss staff management . |
| 21 | I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't |
| 22 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 23 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 24 | A day or two after the baby 's birth , with Mrs Longhill lying-in and the nurse making more work than the rest of the household put together , Florrie left . |
| 25 | It looks as though this would involve quite a bit more work than the seat on Snowhill and I would need to put your estimate to the next meeting of the Parish Council on Thursday 17th June . |
| 26 | In estimating the number of phonemes in spoken versions of words such as " autumn " and " session " both groups of poor spellers made more errors than a group of good spellers , regardless of whether or not they were good readers . |
| 27 | Now there were more footsteps and the crunch of car wheels on gravel . |
| 28 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 29 | Thirty exit points would take no more room than the entrance to a multi-storey car park and the tunnel would carry one three-lane ‘ layer ’ of cars travelling in one direction and a bottom ‘ layer ’ travelling in the other . |
| 30 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |