Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 2 | Hens show marked and lasting preferences for more space than 450 square centimetres . |
| 3 | Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well . |
| 4 | Even where the buildings are described in the Commission 's published series , An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of … , the researcher should write to ( or , better still , visit ) the Commission 's London offices for more information than has appeared on the printed pages . |
| 5 | Pumlumon said in a voice of utmost astonishment , ‘ But has your honour never heard of the Draoicht Suan ? ’ and was instantly hushed by Bith of the Bog-Hat , who had by now sensed that something was wrong , being a gnome of more percipience than his fellows and who liked , no more than Fenella , the manner in which Goibniu was eyeing them all . |
| 6 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 7 | As time passed , however , an excess of gambling , drinking and womanising got the brothers into more debt than George 's dexterous manipulations could possibly conceal . |
| 8 | Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been . |
| 9 | Benny took the bus to Dublin on the first day of term with more trepidation than she would ever have expected . |
| 10 | The afternoon was full of towering performances right through the team but none bossed the action with more grandeur than Paul Ince , described as ‘ a colossus ’ by Coventry boss Bobby Gould . |
| 11 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |
| 12 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 13 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 14 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 15 | There are storage areas with more wire than you 'd dreamed existed ; areas full of strain gauges and various items of test equipment . |
| 16 | They were perpetrated by my great-aunt Olwen , an eccentric lady with more enthusiasm than talent ! ’ |
| 17 | No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank . |
| 18 | Today I look at Russia with more sadness than anger . |
| 19 | He began the campaign with more support than all his rivals combined , but it has trickled through his fingers . |
| 20 | Governments regard conflicts of interest in the financial sector with more concern than those in the non-financial sectors of the economy for two main reasons . |
| 21 | It may require consideration whether some body of men who combined official experience with legal knowledge and who were entirely independent of the Government of the day , might not enforce official law with more effectiveness than any Division of the High Court . |
| 22 | I 'm also baffled about the first half in more respect than one . |
| 23 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 24 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 25 | High wartime taxation was placing a heavy strain on the nation , and the Tories repeatedly claimed that they could " manage the War with more Frugality than you Whigs " . |
| 26 | ‘ The Reverend Father , ’ Athelstan replied smoothly , ‘ would like a bowl of thick leek soup , some bread , and a cup of wine with more water than claret . ’ |
| 27 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 28 | I see little point in presenting the bream with more groundbait than is necessary , and anyway , if both of you catch fish then you are doubling the pleasure , or if your mate catches and you are unlucky , you can enjoy his success and net the fish for him , which is a pleasure in itself . |
| 29 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 30 | Kendall ( 1975 , p. 70 ) notes that ‘ the competitive , politically-oriented nature of French unionism , the undeveloped character of collective bargaining ’ endows the national confederations with more power than they otherwise might possess . |