Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 2 | A CITY-IMPOSED curfew is forcing the Hollywood Palladium to shut down after more than half a century of entertainment ranging from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones , officials said yesterday . |
| 3 | We may expect , to some degree , a hero ( or , more rarely , a heroine ) of more than ordinary stature . |
| 4 | activities involving ‘ a more than ordinary risk of accidents or a risk of more than ordinary damage if accidents in fact result ’ — as a basis for future development of the law . |
| 5 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 6 | That the kindred of Osbern of Eu and the kindred of William fitzOsbern with their friends had succeeded in carrying Duke William to a resounding victory against the invasion of his combined enemies was therefore news of more than ordinary importance . |
| 7 | Thus , for instance , if the line had a slope of 1 , a log transformation would be indicated ; if the line had a negative slope , it would be necessary to raise the data values by a power of more than 1 ; if there is no relationship and the line has zero slope , power transformations are not likely to help . |
| 8 | He pointed to growth forecasts of more than 1 per cent this year , higher retail sales , stronger exports , growing business confidence and stronger activity in the housing market . |
| 9 | Average personal income rose in real terms by as much as 5 per cent per annum in the early 1960s , and continued to grow by an average of more than 1 per cent per year in the 1970s , resuming a level of 2–3 per cent per year in 1983–88 . |
| 10 | Low to medium ventilation rates can result in formaldehyde concentration of more than 1 PPM . |
| 11 | Other electrocardiographic abnormalities , in addition to ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of more than 1/min , regarded as of ‘ sinister ’ importance — that is , markers of potentially serious complications are , ST segment increase or depression of more than 1 mm , supraventricular tachycardia ( three or more consecutive supraventricular extrasystoles at a rate of more than 130/min ) , second or third degree heart block , ventricular bigemini or trigemini , ventricular tachycardia , ventricular fibrillation or asystole . |
| 12 | The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies . |
| 13 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 14 | And it was a symbol of more than that . |
| 15 | He did n't think there was chance of more than that . |
| 16 | THE Tories were slammed last night for presiding over the loss of more than one-third of Britain 's manufacturing jobs — 2.5 MILLION . |
| 17 | THE scandal of more than one-third of a billion pounds worth of intervention food being held in cold storage in the Republic while millions of people are dying in Africa has angered TDs . |
| 18 | Significant increases were announced in August 1989 in the price of bread , sugar , flour , semolina and cooking oil ; projected subsidies of these foodstuffs in 1989 totalled over dollars 400,000,000-an increase of more than one-third over 1988 . |
| 19 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 20 | The matter is of more than passing scientific interest . |
| 21 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 22 | Another aid , of more than technical significance , was the existence of the state and of the police . |
| 23 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 24 | That is , the underlying holdings of serious reference works , older classics , local history and other works of more than ephemeral interest would fall to such a low level that most readers ' questions and serious enquiries could not be answered without outside help . |
| 25 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 26 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 27 | Liathach is the greatest challenge to Torridon 's visitors and only those of more than average energy and experience should accept it . |
| 28 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 29 | There are Test recalls for Emburey , Michael Atherton and Phillip DeFreitas with the Middlesex off-spinner returning after a gap of more than three-and-a-half years . |
| 30 | Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance . |