Example sentences of "[coord] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 2 | The external walls of all buildings are therefore required to have the requisite period of fire resistance , unless the building is placed at , or more than a specified distance from , the boundary . |
| 3 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 4 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 5 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 6 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 7 | With risers of nor more than a foot , it will put more interest into the garden than twice the planting in the plain . |
| 8 | There was no passion amongst them now , nor more than a vague comprehension of Roxborough 's purpose in forming what he 'd called the Society of the Tabula Rasa , or the Clean Slate . |
| 9 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 10 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 11 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 12 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 13 | They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation . |
| 14 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 15 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 16 | If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method . |
| 17 | After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home . |
| 18 | The language of Gerardo 's pleadings is too forthright as well and more than a little familiar : ‘ Imagine what would happen if everyone acted like you did ’ ; ‘ You 're still a prisoner , locked up with them , in that basement . |
| 19 | Today , it seems , for many of us , these words hold an altogether different promise and more than a few terrors . |
| 20 | Its branches reported 1,350 incidents of bomb damage , and more than a third of the staff left to serve in the armed forces . |
| 21 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 22 | Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay . |
| 23 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 24 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 25 | It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work . |
| 26 | More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings . |
| 27 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 28 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 29 | Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment . |
| 30 | This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory . |