Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 2 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 3 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 4 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 5 | The figure for those out of work for more than a year rose from 73,800 at January , 1992 , to 85,300 at January , 1993 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 7 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 8 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 9 | Of the total sample of around 95,000 trees , 23.5 per cent were more than a quarter defoliated in 1992 , and were thus classified as damaged , compared with 22.2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 10 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 11 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 12 | More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction . |
| 13 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 14 | Kate , hurt and more than a bit shattered under his look of acute dislike , felt she had to try to justify her actions . |
| 15 | Whether the idea survives as more than a fad remains to be seen . |
| 16 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 17 | The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject . |
| 18 | The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech . |
| 19 | Leith supposed she must still be feeling shaken at being grabbed at by Alec Ardis , and more than a touch bruised by her dismissal , and the unfairness of it . |
| 20 | They met in the lobby , which was little more than a hallway graced by a couple of wooden armchairs . |
| 21 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |
| 22 | Reggane was a soulless place , little more than a hamlet inhabited by a handful of people and the wind . |
| 23 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 24 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 25 | Both sides won 11 matches — more than the total achieved by five of the previous six champion counties — but a revealing figure was to be found among the bonus points , where Essex harvested 11 more in the batting column . |
| 26 | ‘ Taxation ’ is no more than the name given to the quantification process whereby the amount of recoverable costs and disbursements is ascertained . |
| 27 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 28 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 29 | Interest alone on the gigantic US deficit has grown to $204 billion — more than the money spent on all domestic programmes except defence . |
| 30 | Not only did the North lose 1.3 million factory jobs in eleven years ( 31.6 per cent of employment in manufacturing and 63 per cent more than the number lost in the South ) but , as a result , the growth of other sectors and female employment was slower than in the South . |