Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good practice for a trainee to be given the opportunity to work in more than one department to broaden his experience . |
| 2 | LUXURY TOUCH : Mr Mellor instructed electricians to carry out more than £1,500 of extra re-wiring so he could listen to his beloved Elgar on compact disc in the breakfast room . |
| 3 | Nazi thugs burn down Sony 's Berlin premises : Chancellor Kohl wins big cheers when he says the perpetrators are just high-spirited hooligans , reminds listeners that German-Japanese friendship goes back more than 50 years . |
| 4 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 5 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 6 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 7 | This will give you enough width to work on more than one cable pattern at a time . |
| 8 | If you 're selling cars , you 've got a guarantee warranty with it , and I think most customers are misled into believing that those guarantees and warranties cover far more than they do in fact . |
| 9 | The Abyssinians could claim an uninterrupted succession going back more than two thousand years ; in Africa , only Egypt had a more ancient civilization . |
| 10 | Merseyside 's Patricia Routledge plays the divine Mrs B to such comic perfection that the programme reels in more than 13 million viewers a show . |
| 11 | Mr John Greenway 's solid work in the constituency was rewarded with a 17,439 majority after his vote went up more than 4,000 to 39,888 . |
| 12 | The interest aroused by his songs encouraged Freeth to publish them , and the words of nearly 400 songs appeared in more than a dozen collections between 1766 and 1805 , John Baskerville [ q.v. ] being among his printers . |
| 13 | Bur Briggs discovered that Sanskrit , an Indian language of meditation dating back more than 3,000 years , contained a grammatical structure identical to the languages being developed for NASA 's extensive artificial intelligence programme . |
| 14 | Now , with the Tokyo stockmarket 's Nikkei index down more than 23% from its December 29th peak , with the yen sliding against the dollar and with interest rates on the up , the mood has switched to fear . |
| 15 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 16 | And erm chap was quite surprised to find that the bedroom window worked out more than his patio . |
| 17 | And it 's only if there is no spouse that matters go rather more as might expect , namely firstly always the children or the issue if they are n't any of those to your parents brothers an sis er issue of parents therefore brothers sisters nephews and nieces . |
| 18 | I cited that 1,000-calorie total because , to my knowledge , all adults in normal health and circumstances burn up more than 1,000 calories daily . |
| 19 | Our supermarkets carried out more than 400 million transactions last year . |
| 20 | All successful companies spend much more than 0.5 per cent . |
| 21 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 22 | Eric Touchaleaume looks back more than fifty years , with twelve almost unknown works by Max Ernst . |
| 23 | The outcome is crucial to the future of Ferranti in the wake of the discovery of bogus contracts at its ISC Technologies subsidiary which forced the group to write off more than £200million . |
| 24 | The outcome is crucial to the future of Ferranti in the wake of the discovery of bogus contracts at its ISC Technologies subsidiary which forced the group to write off more than £200million . |
| 25 | In mid-Buckinghamshire the average of 6d. or 7d. looks to have been inclusive of house and outbuildings for , according to an Aylesbury rental dated 1532 , land without buildings commanded not more than 4d. , examples being 3 acres for 1s. , three roods for 3d. , and 55 acres for £1. 2s. 10d . |
| 26 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 27 | The move came as more than 50 KANU officials and members resigned to join FORD . |
| 28 | Monsoon spoke in more than one voice . |
| 29 | A five-man team of police , forensic and fire officers spent eight days carrying out more than 100 interviews . |
| 30 | Cover for credits extended over more than two years , however , stayed with the ECGD , and manufacturers involved in project business claim their insurance costs have sometimes doubled . |