Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 3 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 4 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 5 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 6 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 7 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 8 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 9 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 10 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 11 | ‘ Old Trafford is the one ground I have wanted to play at more than any other , ’ said Johnson , 21 . |
| 12 | Singapore 's trouble is that as soon as its economy starts to grow by more than 6–7% , the labour market tends to get tight . |
| 13 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 14 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 15 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 16 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 17 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 18 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 19 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 20 | She suffered severely from arthritis , was unable to read for more than short periods of time , was bored and confused by television , and for long periods lay inert , half dozing , half listening to the radio . |
| 21 | Academic ability was to count for more than ‘ redness ’ and class background , offering a ‘ new dawn ’ ( ZGQN 1988 ( 1 ) : 2 ) for China 's youth . |
| 22 | In such circumstances the opinions and interests of those most directly affected ought to count for more than the opinions of those of us who are only marginally affected , if at all . |
| 23 | He was not rebuked because he refused to believe without enough reasons but because he refused to believe with more than enough reasons . |
| 24 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 25 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 26 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 27 | If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks . |
| 28 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 29 | To quote the dictionary again , the word ‘ adventure ’ contains in it an element of the unexpected , of chance and Fate , which means that the protagonist must be able to call on more than normal attributes to meet the challenge set for him . |
| 30 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |