Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frustration turned to anger on more than one occasion . |
| 2 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 3 | learn how to locate information in books and , where available , databases , sometimes drawing on more than one source , and how to pursue an independent line of enquiry . |
| 4 | Any accountancy fiddles ( e. g. notionally splitting units into several ‘ farms ’ to claim on more than 50 LUs ) would need vigilance by the Agriculture Departments . |
| 5 | Men can ring the changes by wearing a different shirt or tie if they do n't want to invest in more than one suit . |
| 6 | The international regatta on Sunday afternoon is an ingenious test of rowing skill and versatility , where a maximum of nine oarsmen must be deployed among six events , with no individual competing in more than three races . |
| 7 | Many ECP programmes include options to issue in more than one currency , although the majority still only allow for issuing in US dollars . |
| 8 | For example sulphur troxide dinitrogen tetroxide diiodine hexachloride Alternatively , where a binary compound contains an element which may exist in more than one oxidation state , the oxidation number is indicated . |
| 9 | Both solids and liquids may exist in more than one phase . |
| 10 | These are two of the final resolutions of an international conference on women , media and advertising , entitled ‘ Who calls the Shots ? ’ which took place in Manila , Philippines , last year , bringing together more than 150 participants from 25 countries . |
| 11 | Cause the front tyres tend to go down more because they 're carrying more weight . |
| 12 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |
| 13 | This will give you enough width to work on more than one cable pattern at a time . |
| 14 | However , to public and professionals alike many old buildings are still regarded as representing little more than four external walls . |
| 15 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |
| 16 | Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 18 | On a recent visit to the Ringhalls nuclear power station in Sweden , Sellafield Public Relations manager Duncan Jackson and information officer Dave Curry were asked by Distington headmaster John Nixon to pass on more than 60 letters to a school close to the Ringhals plant . |
| 19 | Raw materials amount to almost 50 per cent of costs , but suppliers will be lucky to pass on more than 5 per cent , Jim Leng believes . |
| 20 | It is good practice for a trainee to be given the opportunity to work in more than one department to broaden his experience . |
| 21 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 22 | 3 A class of words may undergo regular change of form to provide for certain changing circumstances , in particular : ( a ) They may change form because they appear in more than one element of a structure : It is my father ; It is my father 's car . |
| 23 | Now , with the Tokyo stockmarket 's Nikkei index down more than 23% from its December 29th peak , with the yen sliding against the dollar and with interest rates on the up , the mood has switched to fear . |
| 24 | First are simple systems which involve not more than three or four variables and can be handled by relatively simple techniques , including regression models and partial differential equations although finite difference methods may increase in the future . |
| 25 | This makes good sense considering that 85% of the Solomon 's 331,000 people live in almost 6,000 villages scattered over more than 100 islands and 60,000 sq . |
| 26 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 27 | The card this time has not more than six words on it , because that seems to be about all that most people can hold at once . |
| 28 | However , in Britain the same label means the drink contains not more than 1.2 per cent alcohol . |
| 29 | Under s.4 of the ITSFEA 1988 ( newly amended s.32(a) of the SEA 1934 ) , natural persons found guilty of insider trading ’ … shall upon conviction be fined not more than $1m , or imprisoned for not more than 10 years , or both ’ , whereas for persons other than natural persons the fine stands at $2.5m . |
| 30 | Book Seven enhances the impression of a century of civil war , but again allowance must be made for the fact that this one book covers scarcely more than twelve months of 584/5 , and that it is concerned largely with the attempt by the " pretender " Gundovald to establish his claim to the Frankish throne . |