Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , he or she owes more than £12,000 — an increase of 167 p.c . |
| 2 | Well I do n't suppose she does more than about thirty miles a week in it . |
| 3 | Oh I think she does more than that . |
| 4 | She claims more than £176,000 has been withdrawn . |
| 5 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 6 | A company can be referred if it supplies more than 25 per cent of the total market . |
| 7 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 8 | He has more than £50m wrapped up in the concern , via his 35% share stake , and needs to protect it . |
| 9 | It covers more than 30 professions including entertainers , barristers , doctors and dentists , farmers , hoteliers and MPs . |
| 10 | It seems squat because it covers more than 265,000 square metres . |
| 11 | It focuses on painters : it covers more than 200 artists and features six works selected by each from their slides held in WASL 's archive . |
| 12 | It covers more than 500 acres and houses 68,000 people ; Somalians forced from their homeland by war and drought . |
| 13 | From here , it looks more like he 's trying to stir up some shit that 's already been stirred up too much by the neo-Nazis . |
| 14 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 15 | It has more than 200 plants in 30 states and 122 cities in the US , and manufacturing or distribution operations in 33 other countries worldwide . |
| 16 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 17 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 18 | Today it has more than 8m customers worldwide , employs 26,000 people in the UK , controls 3.5% of all shares listed on the stock market and pays out £10m every day in pensions , savings and life insurance policies . |
| 19 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America has announced deployment of 9.6Kbps local dial capabilities in 99 new US cities , meaning that during the last six months it has more than doubled its coverage . |
| 20 | The company claims it has more than 1,600 user sites in the US , Europe and the Pacific region . |
| 21 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 22 | The median delay has substantially increased since 1990 in all five pain clinics based in district general hospitals : in three of these clinics it has more than doubled . |
| 23 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 24 | It has more than 400 police , customs and civilian support staff , based at five regional offices in England and Wales . |
| 25 | Delyn was going to spend £1.25m in 1993–94 , but finds it has more than £2.5m unspent capital which it can carry over from last year 's budget . |
| 26 | Cos she was something one night , well said yeah that she wants more than , he wants more than two . |
| 27 | Erdinger says it uses more than 50 per cent wheat , but declines to be more specific . |
| 28 | It hurts more because we had such a good time in the Eighties . |
| 29 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 30 | It says more than 80% of Unix workstations shipped last year went to sectors where they are most commonly used for technical applications . |