Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His two books of Intavolature ( Venice , 1542–3 ) contain four such ricercari ( together with organ Masses , alternatim Magnificats , hymn-settings , and free re-workings of two chansons by Josquin and Passereau ) , whereas the two examples in his father 's publication are of the same improvisatory nature as the German organ preludes and the early ricercari for luted Girolamo 's are actually more instrumental than the ensemble ricercari of Willaert and Buus ; the influence of hand on keyboard is apparent in more than ornamentation . |
| 32 | Charterers discourage sailing in more than Force 5–6 . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |
| 34 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |
| 35 | On more than occasion New Scientist — and at least one science editor from a leading newspaper , to our knowledge — has told the BA that the press can afford to pay for their own drinks and for those of their less wealthy friends who do n't have the same access to expenses . |
| 36 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 37 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 38 | ‘ It does n't amount to more than gossip , you know . |
| 39 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 40 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 41 | The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level . |
| 42 | I write dis poem fe more dan Art |
| 43 | For official statistics have become tainted by more than disagreement : the charges being levelled against the service amount to the politicisation of knowledge , a form of intellectual corruption and a scandalous abuse of power . |
| 44 | Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space . |
| 45 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 46 | ‘ The ferry operators undertook not to reduce services or increase fares by more than inflation during this period . ’ |
| 47 | In future years , we will maintain our pledge to prevent UBR poundage rising by more than inflation . |
| 48 | We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife 's earned income allowance by more than inflation . |
| 49 | They are far removed by more than distance from their roots in Ayrshire . |
| 50 | Such an argument I do not commend to anybody else , but man is guided by more than reason alone , and in this great conflict , I wanted to play a clear and definite part . |