Example sentences of "[noun] more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If personal relationships counted for a great deal more than structures in such a world , nobility and kinship gave a man claims on royal favour ; and the most influential men — the holders of the key household offices , for instance — were those with special Königsnähe . |
| 2 | The crisis Branson had been expecting broke in October , when British Airways dropped the price of their cheapest return ticket on the London-New York route from £278 to £259 — only £1 more than Virgin — and began selling tickets ‘ subject to government confirmation ’ . |
| 3 | 9 Which day did Mr Richards sell 500kg more than Mr Gordon ? |
| 4 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 5 | p.p.p.s to head off any scratching of heads as to why there are some strange costings i.e. Macca being only worth 0.4m more than Fairclough . |
| 6 | But some people feel the cold more than others . |
| 7 | Er , I can assure him the Chief Constable more than shares our concerns about his , hi , hi , his under-funding . |
| 8 | The money £200,000 more than Darlington usually receives is to be used on three major improvement schemes alongside the main East Coast railway line . |
| 9 | ‘ The insurance can cost £80 more than policy offered by Age Concern . |
| 10 | If the pointer is steady at 1½ dots then the aircraft is on a position line which is 5° less than track ( if the pointer is left ) , or 5° more than track ( if pointer is right ) . |
| 11 | As the shares continued to fall in the wake of Eurotunnel 's estimate that the project would cost at least £2.2bn more than forecast , Alastair Morton , co-chairman of the Anglo-French consortium was in Paris trying to persuade the French banks of the need for new financing . |
| 12 | Villa wanted the former Newport , Oxford and Liverpool star for £300,000 , just £50,000 more than Tranmere paid Spanish club Real Sociedad last summer . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the sub-continent is also prepared to pay about £50,000 more than England towards the cost of the ICC trophy — the qualifying competition run among the smaller nations to decide which three teams will compete in the World Cup proper . |
| 14 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 15 | The figure is £1,000 more than England 's stars pocketed last season . |
| 16 | Some types of accidents — industrial — and some types of illness — diseases related to smoking — affect working-class people more than others . |
| 17 | As with the North-South drift , the urban-rural shift has involved certain types of people more than others , a feature which intensified as migration became more difficult after the early 1970s peak . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 19 | Do men , not perhaps drink alcohol more than women ? |
| 20 | Usually this is so , but of course the lecturers they are very different in their approaches — some will use this illustration approach more than others . |
| 21 | For the predators considered here , the MNI is an underestimate of the predator 's diet because some animals disappear without trace during digestion , some species more than others . |
| 22 | Trevino admitted last year that he could not wait to become a Seniors ' Tour player and , as he predicted , the lack of similar calibre players has allowed him to dominate , winning almost $300,000 more than Mike Hill , second on the money list . |
| 23 | Incidentally as a principle advocate of the WTA 's campaign for equal prize money , I wonder if Monica noticed that in 1991 , from 15 tournaments , she earned nearly £65,000 MORE than Stefan Edberg , her opposite number in the men 's rankings , collected from 20 tournaments . |
| 24 | This year 's winners of the NatWest Trophy will receive a record £27,500 prize — around £5,000 more than Pakistan collected for beating England in the World Cup final — because the total prize-money has increased to £73,350 . |
| 25 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |
| 26 | Farm more than Naomi could ever have expected . |
| 27 | Liverpool allowed us to play a lot more than Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | By reversing his previous stand and meeting the Dalai Lama , Mr Bush was perhaps taking the steam out of a growing congressional effort to do something that would injure a lot more than China 's pride : the cancelling of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status . |
| 29 | Artistically they felt out of their depth here , but when it came to spending the town 's money they knew a lot more than Herr Busacher did . |
| 30 | The Zikr must have been devout too , of course , but he got round a lot more than Zoser , mixed with people , liked crowd and noise and a bit of fun . |