Example sentences of "[v-ing] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich . |
| 2 | I walked down the aisle , sobbing uncontrollably , in a cream Wallis suit with hand-made replacement buttons costing more than the suit . |
| 3 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 4 | There is nothing to stop Humberside Heavy Haulage from paying more than the legal minimum if the company really wishes to show appreciation of Peter 's loyal service over the years . |
| 5 | when they discover that they are not paying more than the 20 per cent . |
| 6 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 7 | And borrowers suffering from ‘ negative euqity ’ — owing more than the house is now worth — might do well to maintain their current monthly payments . |
| 8 | To her surprise , he wrote to her more that winter than at any time before and she was touched to find him attempting more than the sweet but stilted compositions he had managed previously . |
| 9 | Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria . |
| 10 | Such ideas have probably influenced the process of teaching more than the content of courses in higher education , although they had a direct bearing on the original terms of reference of university extra-mural departments . |
| 11 | Other leakages include : ( a ) the holding of excess reserves by banks — that is holding more than the minimum reserve requirement ; ( b ) an increase in the public 's desired cash holdings ; and ( c ) a net outflow of currency overseas as a result of a balance of payments deficit . |
| 12 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 13 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 14 | ‘ There were times when Sid James sowed dissatisfaction among the other artists by claiming that he was getting more than the others . |
| 15 | i can just verify that Frank is having talks with a spanish 1 div club ( i do nt think they have any ‘ premier div ’ down there — so first is first … ) — i guess Frank feels he does n't get the chance he + me + others thinks he deserves — Dino and Wallace just not delivering goals and Frank never getting more than the 10 last minutes from time to time . |
| 16 | Two million people drink water containing more than the European Commission 's Maximum Admissible Concentration ( MAC ) of aluminium , which is increasingly believed to cause Alzheimer 's disease ( incurable dementia ) . |
| 17 | As a result , the creditor bank is affected by the unconscionable actions of the husband and will be restrained from recovering more than the £60,000 which they have already received . |
| 18 | The social costs of not recognizing the intensity of high demand groups may be considerably greater than any inequities that may stem from their success in demanding more than the median voter is interested in ( Wade 1979 ) . |
| 19 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 20 | But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit , the body no longer interested in sex , the mind no longer interested in speculation , the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and , in the end , the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all . |
| 21 | Having more than the ideal number can be a problem — it does n't mean that any more will be sold , and the rest will sit on the shelf ‘ doing nothing ’ . |
| 22 | According to a new study from the Ministry of Agriculture , one in six 2–5-year-olds are consuming more than the recommended daily intake of saccharin , largely through soft drinks . |
| 23 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 24 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 25 | In the first round , a candidate winning more than the other candidates put together wins the seat . |
| 26 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 27 | The target beneficiary was the salaried ‘ family man ’ who , by reason of earning more than the £250 limit applied to non-manual workers , was excluded from participation in the new 1925 contributory state scheme , under which a retirement pension became payable at 65 and a modest pension became available to widows of any age ( Groves , 1983 , p. 41 ) . |
| 28 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
| 29 | From the point of view of the ‘ host ’ or ‘ hostess ’ the most immediate benefit of showing art would be to enhance a pleasant ambience , but the more ambitious would also be seeking to attract a certain clientele by offering more than the comfort of food . |
| 30 | Jack Schofield on a company feeling more than the pinch of a weak US economy IBM in a downsizing squeeze . |