Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun pl] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 5 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 6 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 7 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 8 | However , mixing of modes of the same symmetry and similar frequency often occurs , so that deuterium substitution causes shifts of more bands than might have been expected . |
| 9 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 10 | He has need of more wits than mine , and two who will stand by him is better than one . ’ |
| 11 | A deficiency of some manually-digitized data is due to the inclusion of more points than are needed to define the position of a line to a given level of accuracy . |
| 12 | The distortions which occur under a system of all but exclusively local authority house-building — the tendency to conform to the past rather than the future location of population ( with consequent immobilisation of labour ) , the wrong proportion of houses of different sizes , and the provision of more amenities than those for which tenants are prepared to pay the economic price — these will naturally correct themselves when private building is restored . |
| 13 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 14 | With more secrets than Pandora 's Box , they give absolutely noting away . |
| 15 | 1991 was the worst year of the current 30-year pandemic of cholera , with more cases than in the past five years combined . |
| 16 | Years of dieting and exercise had banished that slight stodginess for ever ; now her body looked lithe and firm , yet still blessed with more curves than Paula 's had ever been , as much a denial of her years as her face . |
| 17 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 18 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 19 | The son of a stockbroker and part of a large and easy-going family , James was brought up with more options than most . |
| 20 | The place will still be flooded with more arms than any other part of the globe , even if Iraq has none . |
| 21 | Those with more goods than they have need for their own consumption will sell to those who have insufficient goods for their needs . |
| 22 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 23 | Returning to the question of coverage , this is always less than complete , with more taxes than benefits being allocated to the identified income groups . |
| 24 | By the thirties there were picture-halls galore , over 130 , and with more cinemas than any other city in the world outside the United States , Glasgow was no mean Cinema-City . |
| 25 | They 'll be coming out with more diseases than they went in with |
| 26 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 27 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |
| 28 | He also likened the tripartite event to a three-ring circus characterising HP as juggling a wide assortment of mis-matched architectures , hardware and software and DEC as a magic act with more illusions than Siegfried & Roy . |
| 29 | It 's a woody dale with more trees than many of the other dales , and hedges replace the stone walls of limestone country . |
| 30 | Using the Post Office also provides us with more branches than all the other clearing banks put together . |