Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 2 | Its virtual monopoly on the allegiance of the Ovambo , who account for more than half Namibia 's population of 1.3 million , all but guarantees Swapo more than half the voters . |
| 3 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 4 | Some 121 countries may be designated ‘ developing ’ and of this 121 , 17 countries account for more than four-fifths of energy consumption . |
| 5 | The aim is to reduce the ranks of the young unemployed who now account for more than half the nation 's two million jobless and to give them an added skill which will help them find work when the training is over . |
| 6 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 7 | In comparison with the Conrad passage , purely concrete nouns ( engine , wagons , colt , gorse , railway , hedge , basket , etc ) are here more frequent , and indeed account for more than two-thirds of all nouns . |
| 8 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 9 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |
| 10 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 11 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 13 | To the untrained eye , pretty pictures count for more than interesting spectra ; neither are they without scientific interest . |
| 14 | It may be that , in practice , the norms and practices of the various CNAA subject boards count for more than such general sentiments . |
| 15 | However , as has been said , relationships depend upon more than legal provisions . |
| 16 | Secondly , the workbook encourages the students to understand their patient as a complex person whose health and wellbeing depend on more than biomedical considerations . |
| 17 | Ackroyd includes the epigram ( which sounds more Wildean than Dickensian ) simply so that he can disprove it , but these free-form gobbets never look like more than irrelevant scratchings of a creative itch . |
| 18 | I 've no doubt he 'll have all the usual childhood ailments and get into more than a few scrapes , but he 'll survive , ’ Vitor said , with a smile of encouragement . |
| 19 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 20 | The way we look at it is , there 's people out there want to kill me , and the authorities let you in here and give you access to more than we will probably ever get . |
| 21 | What young mothers suffer from more than almost anything else is having constant responsibility for their children . |
| 22 | Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break . |
| 23 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 24 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 25 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |
| 26 | It must also amount to more than simple investments in bricks and mortar and extend beyond conventional methods of professional development for primary care practitioners . |
| 27 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 28 | The well had to access two potential reservoir compartments and a 600m ‘ barrier ’ in the central horizontal section and still produce at more than 55mscfd . |
| 29 | Allow enough space to manoeuvre around the offer ; ask for more than you expect and concede less than you would ultimately be willing to give . |
| 30 | For this reason it can prove profitable to branch whenever possible , only on variables which differ by more than some prespecified tolerance , 0.1 for example , from the nearest integer . |