Example sentences of "[prep] the more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By judicious use of the more than adequate graphic , a wide variety of sounds can be accessed . |
| 2 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 3 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 4 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 5 | Both electric and acoustic guitars feature in his attempt to assemble a piece , with the multi-track guitar-playing chores in the more than capable hands of Milton McDonald . |
| 6 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |