Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 2 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you 've not used the colour changer before , or not used your ribber for more than welts , it is wise to start by using the colour changer just to knit striped plain rib . |
| 5 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The ferry operators undertook not to reduce services or increase fares by more than inflation during this period . ’ |
| 8 | Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies , but let us remember the strengths of British industry , which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France , Germany , the United States or Japan — The hon. and learned Gentleman does not like that answer because he wants to talk Britain down . |
| 9 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 10 | The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts . |
| 11 | It has already demonstrated its willingness to serve Western objectives by more than compensations for oil production lost as a result of the UN embargo on exports from Iraq and Kuwait — with the result that international oil prices despite the war remain low and are predicted to fall to new lows of between $11 and $15 per barrel after the war . |
| 12 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |
| 15 | I write dis poem fe more dan Art |
| 16 | Economic regeneration in the area has been supported through the allocation of more than ES million of urban programme resources . |
| 17 | The judges were also impressed by a striking cover portraying a woman and her daughter with the logo ‘ Fighting cancer with more than medicine ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 20 | ‘ T'was in more than t'colour of his hair that he was like a fox , ’ the maid replied . |
| 21 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 22 | 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 . |