Example sentences of "[conj] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 2 | It is obvious that more than modesty is at stake . |
| 3 | Advocates of animal rights believe that more than reform of the system is needed . |
| 4 | And more than solstice moves |
| 5 | And more than muscle . |
| 6 | ACT intends to pursue such partnership agreements more and more as time goes on . |
| 7 | If more than lip service is to be paid to the notion that we are all equal , then it must be first acknowledged that we are born unequal , and that some of us have to work harder than others to make up for it . |
| 8 | In fact such transformations are rare precisely because , if more than lip-service is to be paid to them , the practical implications are considerable ; which is not to deny that lip-service , in the form of campaigning and complaining , has its uses . |
| 9 | Not enough to worry the likes of the 85bhp Citroen AX GT perhaps , but more than competition for the 75bhp Metro GTa . |
| 10 | But more than impatience was involved . |
| 11 | There was fear in them , but more than fear — defiance , a little , and challenge . |
| 12 | But more than difference , our diet was to do with the desperate need , wrenched from restricted circumstances , to be in charge of the body . |
| 13 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
| 14 | As an old friend — as more than friend — I beg you not to contemplate marriage with him — ’ |
| 15 | If such an interpretation were accepted , such stamps can be viewed as more than decoration as they become symbols conveying information about family . |