Example sentences of "[verb] more [subord] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 2 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 3 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 4 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 6 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 7 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 8 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 9 | And in a speech lasting more than an hour , he accused the Republicans of lying to keep the power , prestige and perks of presidency . |
| 10 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 11 | In French literature lectures , Sartre became more than an academic discovery , though I understand only now why the idea that " the person is nothing else but his freedom " and the revelations of Nausea had such enormous appeal for me . |
| 12 | In the remaining seats , the candidates who got more than an eighth of the total vote go to a second ballot . |
| 13 | Given his many commitments and the preparations for the new play , his second , The Family Reunion , on which he probably worked harder than on any other — it was understandable that he could not consider sparing more than an evening away . |
| 14 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |
| 15 | TOO MUCH SUPPLY , TOO LITTLE DEMAND It will take more than an upturn to cheer the developers up — there will be little for them to do until tenants move into the large areas of commercial space that have yet to be let |
| 16 | They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to . |
| 17 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 18 | However , she never practised , and neither did she publish more than an ( authoritative ) article on labour law for the Encyclopaedia Britannica . |
| 19 | True mastery of design and development in multimedia demands more than an incremental change in existing established skills . |
| 20 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 21 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 22 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 23 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 24 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 25 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 26 | The operation , which started just after 8pm , took more than an hour to complete . |
| 27 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 28 | The march of uniformed members took more than an hour to pass the saluting base . |
| 29 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 30 | Police and firefighters took more than an hour to free the bodies from the wreckage . |