Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 2 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 3 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 4 | These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class . |
| 5 | Kennedy was intent upon leading the Western World with an open-handedness that made Britain no more than just one of the Western European states . |
| 6 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 7 | It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home . |
| 8 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |
| 9 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |
| 10 | ‘ Myth is alive at once and in all its parts , and dies before it can be dissected ’ , declared Tolkien , and his statement is more than usually true of The Lord of the Rings , as I have said on p. 100 above . |
| 11 | Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns . |
| 12 | All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her . |
| 13 | Here dating becomes more and more problematical as the time spans become longer and longer . |
| 14 | Through relaxing and stilling the mind , sinking beneath the constant chatter of the conscious self , we become more and more receptive to the whispers from our Higher Self . |
| 15 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 16 | And I think for Mr to pretend that the Government has nothing to do with our problems , is unfortunately becoming more and more threadbare as an excuse . |
| 17 | As millions flocked to Butlins , to other imitators and to other holiday resorts offering the packaged experience , older alternative forms of holidaying began to look more and more peripheral within the popular cultural practices of the British people . |
| 18 | As we learn to give ourselves more time to pause before activity , we will slowly become more and more aware of the warning signals that our body gives us when it is under stress . |
| 19 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 20 | So things are getting more and more fraught with the folks back home who are determined to have him married . |
| 21 | From then on , the references to pre-capitalist systems become more and more numerous in the work of Marx and Engels , but it was really from 1880 on , when Marx was shown the work of the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan that he and Engels gave a major place to the study of tribal societies . |
| 22 | Sometimes information can be derived from written sources , such as works of history or documents , and these become more and more important from the early medieval period onwards . |
| 23 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 24 | Merton 's success in its principal specialty , the London property world — the firm undertook search assignments in connection with Rosehaugh Stanhope 's celebrated Broadgate development , for example — suggests that such a strategy of specialisation may become more and more common in the British headhunting business in the future . |
| 25 | Refugee camps here in Amman are said to be crammed to capacity , the authorities are growing more and more concerned about the numbers of Asian refugees , Indians , Bangladeshis , Pakistanis , Philippinos and Thais . |