Example sentences of "[noun] from more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers demonstrated that there is a physiological plasma/milk barrier against fluoride which protects the infant from more than extremely low concentrations of the halogen . |
| 2 | If we all tried to see things from more than our own view point , the world would be a better place . |
| 3 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |
| 4 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |
| 5 | A tour round any Mediterranean marina in winter will find faded remnants of national pride hanging like tatty washing from more than half the yachts . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |