Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone needs practise and Jack got the opportunity for more than most . |
2 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
3 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
4 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
5 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
6 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
7 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
8 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
9 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
10 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
11 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
12 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
13 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
14 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
15 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
16 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
17 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
18 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
19 | But in cities like San Francisco and New York , where the NAP is a familiar presence , judgments of a different sort — ‘ deceitful ’ , ‘ divisive ’ , ‘ political destroyers ’ , ‘ Moonies of the left ’ — echo with remarkable consistency from the lips of activists , black and white alike , who have encountered Fulani , the NAP and party leader Fred Newman through more than a speech . |
20 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
21 | Moreover , on the old system where teachers shared responsibility for more than their own lessons , they were brought much more closely into contact with one another , in an informal way . |
22 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
23 | His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts . |
24 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
25 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
26 | On the questions of prevention and punishment of crime , the Government have taken committed and sustained action for more than a decade . |
27 | ‘ But I 'm getting doubts about more and more things , ’ replied his junior master . |
28 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
29 | Their success attracted a worldwide following as the Lisbon Lions and their successors dominated Scottish football for more than a decade . |
30 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |