Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 2 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 3 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 4 | West German electoral law prescribes that in principle the magnitude of a constituency should not deviate by more than 25% from the average , and that if it deviates by more than 33.3% its boundaries must be redrawn . |
| 5 | ‘ You may find it results in more than you can handle . ’ |
| 6 | An offer must be made if the holding of an offeror and its concert parties reaches 30 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights or , if the holding has already achieved this level , it increases by more than 1 per cent in any period of 12 months . |
| 7 | In Scale 1 he protests that he speaks of more than he has directly experienced : In the second book which complements the material in the first , there is an often remarked upon change of tone : the reservation and distancing of Scale 1 is absent from the imagistic structures which embody his thought and insight in Scale 2 . |
| 8 | GUIL : He 's always talking about us — there are n't two people living who he dotes on more than us . |
| 9 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 10 | It argues on more than equal terms with Marxism , Existentialism , Nationalism , Capitalism . |