Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 2 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 3 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 4 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | And in the end it would be national government which was expected to sort them out ( TES 1990 ) : Parity of esteem depends on more than assertions about which NCVQ level equals an A Level . |
| 6 | What assurance can he give the House that that will amount to more than crumbs from the European Commission 's table ? |
| 7 | It has already demonstrated its willingness to serve Western objectives by more than compensations for oil production lost as a result of the UN embargo on exports from Iraq and Kuwait — with the result that international oil prices despite the war remain low and are predicted to fall to new lows of between $11 and $15 per barrel after the war . |