Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 2 | Of more than man , where marble daemons watch |
| 3 | I had located the dreaded Carol easily enough and reclaiming the pendant had been a piece of cake , well , a piece of more than cake , actually . |
| 4 | Economic regeneration in the area has been supported through the allocation of more than ES million of urban programme resources . |
| 5 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 6 | As the figure shows , deliveries from the Advocates ' Library ( which are largely outwith the control of the National Library ) tended to take longer even than deliveries of rare or early material , with more than half ( 51% ) of all timed deliveries taking longer than 35 minutes , and with only 16% — around one in five — taking twenty minutes or less . |
| 7 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 8 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 9 | The judges were also impressed by a striking cover portraying a woman and her daughter with the logo ‘ Fighting cancer with more than medicine ’ . |
| 10 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 11 | Yet they were bright with more than lust , brighter with other kinds of desire . |
| 12 | In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton . |
| 13 | His coming meant that the radio station could deal with more than news bulletins and official talks . |
| 14 | The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts . |
| 15 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Some things are worth more than money . ’ |
| 17 | But one thing should console him : Microsoft is now worth more than IBM ! |
| 18 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 19 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 20 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 21 | That to me is worth more than silver , for I think much about the state of the land in these strange times , with snow falling in midsummer and the Giants wandering the hills . ’ |
| 22 | It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe . |
| 23 | shows through more than others . |
| 24 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 25 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 26 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 27 | No player , with the single exception of Ian Botham , is photographed or talked about more than Graham Gooch , whose story has just been reliably and thoroughly told by Ivo Tennant in a book boldly entitled Graham Gooch , The Biography ( £15.99 ) . |
| 28 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 29 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 30 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |