Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Economic regeneration in the area has been supported through the allocation of more than ES million of urban programme resources . |
2 | In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton . |
3 | But one thing should console him : Microsoft is now worth more than IBM ! |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | Football , and Swindon Town step up their promotion challenge at Southend tonight … and they 'll be hoping for more than Oxford and Hereford got last night … |
6 | Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies , but let us remember the strengths of British industry , which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France , Germany , the United States or Japan — The hon. and learned Gentleman does not like that answer because he wants to talk Britain down . |
7 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |