Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of private homes more than tripled in that period , so that by 1986 over 52 per cent of all residential homes were in private hands . |
| 2 | Pick Systems got into the market early by establishing sales operations through French resellers more than 10 years ago . |
| 3 | This , perhaps , might not go down too well in Scotland where he will find firms of chartered surveyors more than ready to rise to the challenge . |
| 4 | In some baboons , however , females move between social units more than males , for example the hamadryas ( Abbeglen 1976 ) . |
| 5 | Bureaucracy distorts the tasks of social organizations more than it does in management , where ‘ the accumulation of bureaucratic relations does not necessarily decrease efficiency ’ . |
| 6 | It is perhaps in the surviving pre-Conquest books more than anywhere that we can find a clue to Lanfranc 's impatient determination to make a completely new start with the monastic life at Canterbury . |
| 7 | ‘ A man who feels his civic responsibilities more than some . |
| 8 | Its remit extends to the National Health Service and to many other public bodies more than half of whose income comes from public funds . |
| 9 | Rather , it commands the government to make sure that its actions do not help acceptable ideals more than unacceptable ones , to see to it that its actions will not hinder the cause of false ideals more than they do that of true ones . |
| 10 | In the rest of the country , and in post-Plague London , the change was due to social trends more than anything else . |
| 11 | Those aged 75 years and over use the whole gamut of health and personal social services more than do younger people , and both usage and need increase with age thereafter . |
| 12 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 13 | Older people were more religious than the young , women more than men , and above all , the rural areas more than the urban workers , as S. G. Strumilin discovered in 1922 ( Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | For these teachers the time taken up by their extra activities more than repays itself in renewed zest and self-confidence in school . |
| 15 | In Victorian times more than now boys were enjoined to be little men . |
| 16 | Profits from the US division fell more modestly to £1.9 million , with Florida timeshare making more , while central costs more than halved to £4.3 million . |
| 17 | FROM 1 April all male cattle more than three months old which have been registered must be accompanied by their relevant Cattle Control Documents when sold by auction . |
| 18 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 19 | Taxable profits more than doubled to £45.1 million in the 12 months to December as the team , led by Anthony Habgood , the chief executive brought in from Tootal mid-way through 1991 , got to grips with loss-makers and revitalised other businesses . |
| 20 | You will see individual junctions more than once , please attempt to describe the road layout completely each time it appears on a film even though you may have described the junction previously ’ . |
| 21 | They have used finance company personal loans more than women have in the past , but women now use them as much . |
| 22 | There has also been an increased recognition of the need for a multicultural curriculum in all schools to enable pupils to recognise diversity in societal and global issues more than a limited ethnocentric approach might permit . |
| 23 | The council faces a £4.5m. bill for repairs to the centre after defective mortar was found in the outer walls more than a year ago . |
| 24 | Every town had a forum and large cities more than one . |
| 25 | Stylish midfielder Davis , 31 , was fined and dumped from Graham 's first-team plans more than a year ago when he wrote an article in a national newspaper criticising the manager 's tactics after Arsenal 's exit from the European Cup by Benfica . |
| 26 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 27 | A negative region in the correlation curve implies that u 1 and u 2 tend to be in opposite directions more than in the same direction . |
| 28 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 29 | Rather , it commands the government to make sure that its actions do not help acceptable ideals more than unacceptable ones , to see to it that its actions will not hinder the cause of false ideals more than they do that of true ones . |
| 30 | Of course , all human institutions must rely heavily on consensus , and it is proper that they should , but in the British Electricity Authority , partly because of the predilection of the chairmen and partly because of the difficulty of defining yardsticks , internal politics were to dominate commercial allocative mechanisms more than in most businesses . |