Example sentences of "[v-ing] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 2 | They 'll be replaced by new homes costing more than a million pounds . |
| 3 | The body is normally able to control the balance of cholesterol , by producing more if the intake is low or less if the intake is increased . |
| 4 | Ca n't imagine somebody on a hundred and ten that will be paying more than a hundred and twenty one pence . |
| 5 | BIUI TOSI A reverie lasting more than a hundred and forty-two years on cosmological themes ; the sound of air in a cavern ; long dark hair |
| 6 | Now the university has decided to spend one hundred and fifty thousand pounds installing more than a hundred of the latest computers . |
| 7 | The Authority is permanently closing more than a hundred beds around the county . |
| 8 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 9 | Based at Milton Keynes , it 's the country 's largest distribution company , but the move has been condemned as undermining more than a hundred years of service to the public . |
| 10 | The Daily Telegraph has slipped into decline over the last 10 years , losing more than a million readers ( 3.59 million in 1980 ; 2.55 million 1989 ) . |
| 11 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 12 | This afternoon Kevin , his brother Ian and an American business associate appeared in court on charges of fraud involving more than a hundred and thirty five million pounds . |
| 13 | An international fraud has been uncovered involving more than a hundred and sixty thousand pounds worth of computer software . |
| 14 | In the autumn of 1798 , three frigates carrying more than a thousand soldiers had sailed into Killala Bay . |
| 15 | A sailor has been killed in a fire which crippled a Channel Ferry carrying more than a thousand people . |
| 16 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 17 | The television presenter Johnny Morris , famous for his Animal Magic series , has been entertaining more than a thousand children at a wildlife park in the Cotswolds . |
| 18 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 19 | The record in a profile can contain inputs spanning more than a hundred years , and under favourable circumstances it can be used to chart oscillations in recharge , from which one can infer climatic history . |