Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 2 | After more days and nights than he cared to remember , he was perched on a ledge , perhaps halfway up , unable to move up or down . |
| 3 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 4 | I relish the trend towards more analysis and context in news programmes . |
| 5 | Lower prices for West Indian sugar , according to American evidence which had been gathered , would encourage the use of more land and slaves in food production ; the result would be much better feeding of slaves than under a regime where owners took advantage of artificially high prices for cash crops to maximise profits and imported insufficient food for their labour force . |
| 6 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 7 | The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out . |
| 8 | There was also the prospect of more poetry although " They would have to be new poems in a new idiom " . |
| 9 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 10 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 11 | Are they guilty of more abuse than domestic companies ? |
| 12 | Assessment by psychometric testing , according to Humphreys , will become either an intrinsic part of more searches or a stand-alone service contributing further to management development and appraisal techniques . |
| 13 | So is there an what kind of things would you like to see in the village and round about int eh way of more music or less music or a different music ? |
| 14 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 15 | With your help we can put life-saving Oral Rehydration Therapy within reach of more mothers and more children . |
| 16 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 17 | Georgia had long provided a cadre for the Social Democratic movement , and the Tiflis Soviet was of more substance than many in the region . |
| 18 | In a similar vein , Geis ( 1978 : 281 ) writes that ‘ the heavy electrical equipment price-fixing conspiracy alone involved theft from the American people of more money than was stolen in all of the country 's robberies , burglaries , and larcenies during the years in which the price fixing occurred ’ . |
| 19 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 20 | Emergency measures to fight organized crime , announced by the Cabinet on Sept. 20 and supplemented on Sept. 25 after Livatino 's murder , included the commitment of more money and police , moves to oblige magistrates to work in Mafia-controlled areas , and vetting of candidates for local government office , as well as closer state supervision of financial transactions in local administration . |
| 21 | GOING to the theatre , concerts and art galleries remains largely the privilege of the well-off and well-educated , and of more women than men , research shows . |
| 22 | South-west of Brussels , in the village of Braine-le-Comte , His Royal Highness the Prince William , Prince of Orange , heir to the throne of the Netherlands , and Duke , Earl , Lord , Stadtholder , Margrave and Count of more towns and provinces than even he could remember , leaned forward in his chair , fixed his gaze at the mirror which stood on the dressing-table and , with exquisite care , squeezed a blackhead on his chin . |
| 23 | Such ideas as the use of more legumes or other nitrogen-fixers and the ingenious use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the floating fern , Azolla , in paddy fields in southern China offer a ray of hope . |
| 24 | Recently , the recovery of more texts and the reassessment of those long known have shown that many of the accepted similarities are in fact illusory . |
| 25 | It resumed on Aug. 15 for only two hours before being postponed again , amid continuing disputes and a second boycott of the conference by opposition parties because of the presence of more delegates than had been authorized ( 4,288 as opposed to 2,850 ) . |
| 26 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 27 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 28 | Mr Lamont is not happy because he has been the subject of more criticism and speculation over the past three months than most Ministers suffer in a lifetime . |
| 29 | Mr Major , whom one suspects of more mischief and humour than he is credited with , has declared his old enemy to be ‘ Minister for the Little People ’ , which sweetly traps Mr Waldegrave between the cartoonist Pont and the leprechauns . |
| 30 | Mrs. Pridmore could n't see the sense of more examinations and all this talking about a career . |