Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence . |
| 2 | The translations were not the only technical difficulty : there were only two shorthand writers in the court and they were hard pressed to keep up with the proceedings , causing the court to be adjourned more than once so that they could transcribe their notes . |
| 3 | The left arm needs to be rotated more when a weak grip is used . |
| 4 | to restrict the time within which a remedy may be claimed ( e.g. ‘ No claims to be made more than six weeks after purchase ’ ) . |
| 5 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 6 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 7 | Older people , those who are less regular in their life-style and solitary people , all tend to be affected more than the young , the methodical and the social extrovert . |
| 8 | We have seen that Asians and Afro-Caribbeans are likely to be assaulted more than whites ( Asians twice as much as whites ) , and whilst we have statistics where white victims are ‘ mugged ’ by black assailants ( a small part of robbery figures ) , we have no figures for street robbery , rape or racial assaults on black people by whites . |
| 9 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 10 | True , they all do want to see that the overall size of the cake for the military grows , but if any service was to be offered more while all the other services were offered very much less , it is doubtful whether the favoured service would say no in order to defend their colleagues ' role in society . |
| 11 | Or a manufacturer could specify minimum quantity ( quantity forcing ) , or details of service and demonstration facilities , or quality criteria ( e.g. no hamburger to be sold more than two minutes after being cooked ) . |
| 12 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 13 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |