Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 2 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 3 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 4 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 5 | Experience based on antiterrorist operations in half-a-dozen countries from post-war Malaya to more recent Vietnam gave them confidence and authority . |
| 6 | The resulting magnetic field structures control the state of the corona , a hot , tenuous outer atmosphere where the temperature of the plasma reaches 1–2 million K in large , quiet magnetic structures , 3–5 million K in more compact structures associated with active regions , and up to 50 million K during solar flares . |
| 7 | In refinement , equipment and build quality there 's little to choose between the two , while Vauxhall 's head-turner outshines the more expensive Corrado in more humdrum aspects , such as passenger and luggage space , and its motorway ride . |
| 8 | But , just for your information — ’ she underlined the last word ‘ — I 've known Ace Barton for more than ten years … ’ |
| 9 | The long-overdue report from the Cairngorms Working Party is to be published next Friday after more than two years of debate and consultation which sought to find solutions to cope with increasing people pressure on the area . |
| 10 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |