Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mike , you deliberately loosened my ropes more than you needed to . |
| 2 | I always emphasise my eyes more than any other feature . |
| 3 | I emphasise my eyes more than any other feature |
| 4 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 5 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 6 | Specialist labour or industrial correspondents usually exercise a degree of autonomy in their selection and presentation of stories and some accept the need to balance their accounts more than others . |
| 7 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 8 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 9 | Bearing in mind the commercial raison d'etre of the court , there was a case for paying its judges more than those in other divisions . |
| 10 | From its beginnings more than a century ago , modern mathematics has aimed at a total abstraction in the interests of rigour and distillation of its logic . |
| 11 | The modal construction has been found in the following types of context which fall into Jacobsson 's ten categories : ( 25 ) Her restlessness wakened her bedfellows more than once . |
| 12 | I am afraid she gives way to her feelings more than she ought to do . ’ |
| 13 | On the one hand , it seems that it is the illegality and stigma attached to heroin use which cause users their problems more than the drug itself . |
| 14 | Rosie , who had four brothers and six male cousins , very close , distrusted her countrymen more than most women of her age . |
| 15 | The vast majority who remained in work found their wages more than kept pace with inflation . |
| 16 | Maes Howe Chambered Cairn , sealed by its priests more than 5,000 years ago ; reopened and looted by Vikings in 1150 AD . |
| 17 | The empirical correlation between spending and wealth fails to provide a convincing explanation for inter-State variations in welfare allocations , however ; why should some State governments tax their residents more than others in order to provide such a good welfare state , it is asked , unless there are pressing political , and especially electoral , reasons , to do so ? |
| 18 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 19 | One question was about a man who won £2000 in a competition and the way in which he shared the prize money , his wife getting nothing and each of his sons more than their ( older ) sister . |
| 20 | If we bear in mind that even the normal expenses of government by this time exceeded the normal income of the crown , we shall appreciate why Edward I sought to extract from his subjects more than any previous king had attempted . |
| 21 | Why , he 'd made his feelings more than clear out in France , had n't he ? |
| 22 | Under our policies more than one in three of the jobs created in the European Community for women were created during the past eight years in Britain . |
| 23 | One of the things I like most about Julia is the fact that she 's very different from me ; I like our dissimilarities more than our similarities , although we do share a lot . |
| 24 | It does not expect a frail humanity to be capable of loving our neighbours more than ourselves : that would be a task of saintly dimension . |
| 25 | Our repayments are now £200 more a month but our wages more than cover it . |