Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had located the dreaded Carol easily enough and reclaiming the pendant had been a piece of cake , well , a piece of more than cake , actually . |
| 2 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The ferry operators undertook not to reduce services or increase fares by more than inflation during this period . ’ |
| 5 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 6 | The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts . |
| 7 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 8 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |
| 9 | I write dis poem fe more dan Art |
| 10 | The judges were also impressed by a striking cover portraying a woman and her daughter with the logo ‘ Fighting cancer with more than medicine ’ . |
| 11 | We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife 's earned income allowance by more than inflation . |
| 12 | ‘ T'was in more than t'colour of his hair that he was like a fox , ’ the maid replied . |
| 13 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 14 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |