Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs practise and Jack got the opportunity for more than most . |
| 2 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 3 | At least there was room on the floor of the gallery — which curtailed Nigel 's ‘ pacing space ’ somewhat but was counterbalanced by the advantage of more than adequate free labour for harvesting . |
| 4 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 5 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
| 6 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 7 | It is wise , too , not to stick the hook in more than necessary to cast the lob without it throwing off . |
| 8 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 9 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 10 | THE Tories were slammed last night for presiding over the loss of more than one-third of Britain 's manufacturing jobs — 2.5 MILLION . |
| 11 | The scandal , widely known as " Western Australia Inc " , centred upon the loss of more than A$1,000 million ( approximately US$690 million ) of public money in a series of ill-fated ventures involving entrepreneurs including Alan Bond , the former chairman of Bond Corporation Holdings , Laurie Connell , head of the collapsed Rothwells merchant bank , and the late Robert Holmes à Court . |
| 12 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 13 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 14 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |
| 15 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 16 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 17 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 18 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 19 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 20 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
| 21 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 22 | The flare ( terminal portion of the sideburn ) shall not exceed the width of the main portion of the sideburn by more than one-fourth on the unflared width . |
| 23 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 24 | However , the workers were split on whether to take industrial action over the crisis , with production employees at Leyland in Lancashire rejecting a strike by 4-1 but shopfloor workers in Glasgow backing the move by more than 2-1 . |
| 25 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
| 26 | The researchers demonstrated that there is a physiological plasma/milk barrier against fluoride which protects the infant from more than extremely low concentrations of the halogen . |
| 27 | But this did not delay the charge for more than an instant . |
| 28 | Look , I know I have a reputation for serving up the truth with more than the traditional British accompaniments . |
| 29 | No doubt Morse will feel the need for more than a tipple when his past catches up with him in that new series starting tonight at 8.00 p.m. here on Central . |
| 30 | The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level . |