Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a module involving several different forms of assessment and/or having more than one member of staff teaching and assessing it , double marking is not normally required . |
| 2 | Cows of the better types can weigh as much as 360kg and mature bulls or steers more than 460kg at three years old . |
| 3 | With further practice you will discover words that hold more than one meaning , that are themselves ambiguous , enabling you to represent contending realities at a single stroke . |
| 4 | They can hinge on words that have more than one meaning or more than one usage , words that rhyme or sound similar , common thematic elements , or common symbolic associations . |
| 5 | • It damages a strategic British manufacturing Industry that secures more than 71,000 jobs in Britain . |
| 6 | I draw this on to most designs that use more than two colours , before printing out . |
| 7 | Arch-rival Burger King in Newcastle 's bustling Northumberland Street was packed with Christmas shoppers and lost more than £1,000 in takings on one of its busiest days of the year . |
| 8 | The rescue package , financed by the three developers , involves felling 300 dead trees , clearing away undergrowth and planting more than 1,200 trees . |
| 9 | Mason 's party also took place in the canteen and attracted more than 60 former employees . |
| 10 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 11 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 12 | Is my hon. Friend aware that many of the companies that employ more than 1,000 people employ many women part time ? |
| 13 | It is a busy waterway , with water traffic between Marienburg and Nuln more than 500 miles inland . |
| 14 | Since then , TI has sold 28 wholly- or partly-owned subsidiaries and acquired more than 20 . |
| 15 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She has lectured in 40 countries and written more than 70 articles . |
| 17 | The total of people out of work for a year rose by 75,000 in the three months to January and has more than doubled since it started increasing in October 1987 . |
| 18 | Hodgkinson senior says Rees faces possible bankruptcy and raised more than £1,000 during Nottingham 's match against Northampton . |
| 19 | The situation was also aggravated by a series of natural disasters , the most serious of which was the earthquake which devastated the infrastructure of central Luzon in July and killed more than 1,650 people [ see p. 37613 ] . |
| 20 | Serb rockets flattened the temporary hospital with a direct hit and killed more than 50 patients and medical staff . |
| 21 | Reason and Mycielska refer to this as a ‘ time-gap experience ’ and found that more than half their sample of 85 psychology undergraduates and postgraduates reported such experiences as happening more than once a month . |
| 22 | CA-Unicenter co-developed with Hewlett-Packard Co and launched more than 18 months ago , operates under OSF 's Motif graphical user interface on HP 9000 Unix systems , ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 23 | Hospice organiser Mary Lovell and volunteer coordinator Dorothy Davison explained the aims and needs of the hospice and recruited more than a dozen new volunteers to be sitters and drivers in Richmond and others became Friends of the Hospice . |
| 24 | The Daily Post survey was carried out by independent market researchers and involved more than 400 parents and teachers . |
| 25 | The mediation attempt failed and at 3.30pm 400 riot police forced their way into one half of the camp and seized more than 700 weapons such as iron bars and home-made knives . |
| 26 | During the '60s , the main airline there was BEA — responsible for 10,000 fights and carrying more than 500,000 passengers to Nutts Corner in 1962 . |
| 27 | The Voluntary Fire Brigade of Kuala Kedah was formed in 1976 after a tragic fire which destroyed almost the entire village , burning down 800 houses and making more than 5,000 people homeless . |
| 28 | The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams . |
| 29 | Dr Wilkins also advises migraine sufferers to swap conventional fluorescent lights for the newer ‘ nonflicker ’ varieties that oscillate more than 30,000 times per second — too fast for the brain to register , or to provoke a migraine . |
| 30 | The US Treasury released a study showing that in 1988 US-controlled foreign corporations reported $890bn in revenues and paid more than $25bn in taxes to foreign governments . |