Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 2 | There was also the prospect of more poetry although " They would have to be new poems in a new idiom " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Are they guilty of more abuse than domestic companies ? |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Georgia had long provided a cadre for the Social Democratic movement , and the Tiflis Soviet was of more substance than many in the region . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 10 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 11 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 12 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 13 | This is of more value than infrequent formal contact |
| 14 | Counselling sensitivity and insight can often be of more value than strictly medical knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ The mere suggestion of a silhouette of chimneys , hidden behind a sycamore tree in the next door garden , may prove of more value than the carefully-studied roof lines in the architect 's perspective , ’ he wrote in ‘ Castles . ’ |
| 16 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 17 | But in fact the experimental results turn out to allow of more ambiguity than has commonly been supposed . |
| 18 | Pumlumon said in a voice of utmost astonishment , ‘ But has your honour never heard of the Draoicht Suan ? ’ and was instantly hushed by Bith of the Bog-Hat , who had by now sensed that something was wrong , being a gnome of more percipience than his fellows and who liked , no more than Fenella , the manner in which Goibniu was eyeing them all . |
| 19 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 20 | In the Snowdonia National Park this latter consideration frequently appears to be of more importance than any other to the NP Committee when more controversial schemes are examined , in spite of a NPA having no statutory responsibilities for such policies . |
| 21 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 22 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 23 | The definition of living space continues to be of more importance than its detail , and even Gothic novelists , who are fond of adjectives and often describe the landscape at some length , elaborate very little on interiors . |
| 24 | The parties ' intentions are perhaps of more importance than individuals ' commitments . |
| 25 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 26 | In other words it is possible that local social and ecological facts may be of more importance when interpreting crime than broad processes such as modernization . |
| 27 | Oh well there was a lot of more time than that taken up you see . |
| 28 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 29 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 30 | Most Russian aid to Cuba comes in the form of subsidised purchases of sugar , nickel and citrus fruit , and cheap sales of more oil than Cuba needs : it sells the surplus for hard currency . |