Example sentences of "[prep] more [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissatisfied with mainstream Christianity they were impressed by his apparent certainty , but he persuaded his potential British followers with more than just his Biblical knowledge . |
| 2 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 3 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 4 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 5 | For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass , he wrote . |
| 6 | All that was necessary to bring it on in more or less its full force was the sight of the Bible , its cover or open page , or its mere name , or the sight of a church , or the sound of any bell ringing solemnly , from Big Ben down to the bell of the Sunday muffin men . |
| 7 | If he were alive today , he would probably have argued that the system of constitutional monarchy is sustainable , just , in more or less its present form . |
| 8 | The conception of all of them , in more or less their present form , dates from the social revolution of 1942 to 1944 . |
| 9 | What young mothers suffer from more than almost anything else is having constant responsibility for their children . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines . |
| 11 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 12 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
| 13 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 14 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
| 15 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
| 16 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 17 | If the new approach were adopted , Britain would have to cut emissions by more than almost anyone else — 60 percent — in order for Europe to achieve an overall cut of 30 percent . |