Example sentences of "[noun] more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Escape from Childhood ( 1974 ) , John Holt notes that children are , in fact , capable of a great deal more than modern society allows them to be . |
| 2 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 3 | the third heaven I thought it I think , I 've , I 've looked in the re the aid book , what does the third heaven , it was er it was more of a , a dream , more of a sym symbolic dream more than natural reality of vision of heaven do you know what I mean ? |
| 4 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 5 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 6 | And Steffi Graf earned £130,000 MORE than fellow countryman Boris Becker , although they both played the same number of official tournaments — 15 . |
| 7 | Rent subsidies have also benefited working class people more than non-working class groups in society . |
| 8 | Such was the quality of the books donated this year ( realising £6,000 more than last year ) that pricing has become an ever-increasing responsibility . |
| 9 | It is this kind of ‘ book ’ which has eaten away at budgets and corrupted the library staff more than any other . |
| 10 | Good news , except that it costs at least 10p more than other stoneground wholemeal loaves . |
| 11 | O'Rourke sells a lot more than Hot Press , he is a lot more entertaining and a hell of a lot more sincere , and I bet that O'Rourke makes a lot more money than the po-faced , sanctimonious utterances on plebs , puffs , poetry and Provos from the likes of gobshites like Higgins , McCann et al will ever generate . |
| 12 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |