Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb base] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 2 | Basic provision of shelter , heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants . |
| 3 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 4 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 5 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 6 | In the event Berkeley probably cost more than it ever yielded . |
| 7 | The rural charge-payers now pay more than the urban charge-payers since they pay the same basic charge plus the charge for Parish Council services , yet the provision of services by the Borough favours the urban areas . |
| 8 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 9 | Cars , trucks , planes and boats currently contribute more than a quarter of the annual greenhouse gases worldwide , a percentage that is likely to increase . |
| 10 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 11 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 12 | The framers of Constitutions often have more than this in mind . |
| 13 | Yet , a number of democratic constitutions today contain more than a mere organisation chart of functions and powers ; they contain Bills of Rights , which may also include a charter of social and economic rights , something characteristic of constitutions of the twentieth century , although generally honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 14 | Thomson , Airtours and Owners Abroad control more than half the entire British package-holiday market and all own or have links with chains of high street travel agents . |
| 15 | Thomson , Airtours and Owners Abroad control more than half the entire British package-holiday market and all own or have links with chains of high street travel agents . |
| 16 | Lending institutions now sell more and more of their mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , which in turn package them into securities and sell them to investors . |
| 17 | Goods and services produced according to global strategies now comprise more than half the total output , while by 1985 between a quarter and half of world trade ( varying according to economic sector ) was intrafirm , that is between buyer and seller within a single enterprise ( Strange , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | Crime rates often distort more than they clarify . |
| 19 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 20 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 21 | Many spreadsheet users never use more than a mono text mode display ! |
| 22 | Affected children inevitably attract more than their fair share of parental attention which can cause problems with unaffected siblings . |
| 23 | Traditional typesetter like Linotype , Compugraphic and Monotype have moved to accommodate output from the low-cost software , generally by accepting PostScript instructions as an input , while the professional packages from companies such as Magna , GB Techniques among others now pay more than passing attention to facilities like soft preview and laser proofing . |
| 24 | These councils permanently seek more and more money . |