Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 2 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Although this research is expected , and intended , to have practical educational relevance , it is hoped to provide more than a descriptive analysis of classroom practice . |
| 4 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 5 | Strict separation was the order of the day , forcing some couples to leave notes in drainpipes and resort to all kinds of strategies if they wished to communicate more than a passing word . |
| 6 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 7 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 8 | Norwegian rules generally forbid foreign investors to own more than a third of an insurer . |
| 9 | WHEN you 've dragged two successive bosses from burning office blocks , you 're entitled to expect more than a departmental memo by way of thanks . |
| 10 | His band of defectors , called the Socialist Janata Dal , can not hope to win more than a handful of seats in the coming general election . |
| 11 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 12 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 13 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 14 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 15 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 16 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 17 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 18 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 19 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 20 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
| 21 | Rich countries should accept that they do not have , and never will have , facilities to recycle more than a fraction of the rubbish they create . |
| 22 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 23 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 25 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 26 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 27 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 28 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 29 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 30 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |