Example sentences of "[is] [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Parcel Service is to invest more than £15,000 in Langholm this year , most of it in the sevens , which will be played on 1 May ( 2pm ) . |
| 2 | The farmer , Colin French , who 's received more than sixty convictions for cruelty to his animals , has started a three month jail sentence . |
| 3 | Question 21 Where completion is delayed more than two return mortgage funds to the lender ? |
| 4 | LUXURY car-makers Mercedes-Benz AG is to lose more than 10,500 workers by the end of the year , bosses announced yesterday . |
| 5 | If PF1/4 is pressed more than once during a single LIFESPAN log on session , all the requests will be directed to one copy of FORM.LST , which can then be printed after you have returned to VMS . |
| 6 | A seventy two year old grandmother who 's fostered more than a hundred children went to Buckingham Palace today to receive her MBE . |
| 7 | The purpose of course is to obtain more than 50 per cent , when the offer becomes ‘ unconditional as to acceptances ’ . |
| 8 | It 's expected more than 1,000 soldiers will move in next year . |
| 9 | Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light . |
| 10 | Where an application is made more than 24 months after starting Approved Practical Experience , they are also required to confirm that they have satisfied these guidelines in the period to date . |
| 11 | The parents of Patricia Cahill , 19 , who is serving more than 18 years in Thailand for heroin trafficking , have averted financial ruin by selling their Birmingham house . |
| 12 | West Lothian suffered 10 school fires last year , after the destruction of Williamstown primary , Livingston , which is costing more than £1 million to replace . |
| 13 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 14 | He 's done more than most in the Greater Ranges in the last ten years and still has the prospect of many more years to come . |
| 15 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 16 | A coach firm is claiming that it 's owed more than two thousand pounds by a charity set up to help Bosnian children . |
| 17 | Telecom Eireann is seeking more than £200m from European Community structural funds to re-build its telecommunications network : it is also ensconced in discussions with the Irish government over tariff re-balancing ; the state phone company 's financial difficulties have been exacerbated by the 10% currency devaluation which has added £50m to its debts of some £1,000m ; and is likely to halve and worse its profits this year to some £40m . |
| 18 | This was to prove unfortunate when the Second World War came — Charrington 's suffered more than any other brewery from the effects of bomb damage on its tied estate , with one-eighth of all its houses destroyed or damaged . |
| 19 | In the last 6 months , it 's suffered more than 500 job losses . |
| 20 | One man who 's suffered more than most , is Herefordshire trainer , Richard Lee . |
| 21 | But nowhere 's suffered more than Somalia . |
| 22 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 23 | The three-times Wimbledon champion is paying more than £8 million for two dealerships selling the luxury saloons and sports cars built by the German marque . |
| 24 | The three-times Wimbledon champion is paying more than £8 million for two dealerships to be called Autohaus Boris Becker . |
| 25 | But Evans suggests that on some newspapers speed is valued more than polish and on a busy evening a deskman will find stories arriving faster than he can edit them . |
| 26 | The Indian Christian Art Association ( ICAA ) is celebrating more than ten year 's work encouraging and bringing together Christian artists from throughout the country . |
| 27 | A college in Worcester is celebrating more than one hundred and twenty five years at the top . |
| 28 | A family is celebrating more than five hundred years of work at a local docks . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems someone 's offered more than the asking price and they 've accepted it . |
| 30 | VAUXHALL is recalling more than 3,500 four-wheel-drive Frontera Sport and Estate cars to check the wheels . |