Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 2 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 3 | For him , the " Panopticon principle " ( p 216 ) should be regarded as more than just a particular example of ingenuity in architectural design ; rather : " … it was an event in the " history of the human mind " . |
| 4 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 5 | This is the tone about which least needs to be said , and which is usually regarded as more or less ‘ neutral ’ . |
| 6 | Now that 's what it looks like more or less now . |
| 7 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 8 | And then that general principle of Equity , which began as the mere application of moral sense to particular cases , develops into more and more definite rules . |
| 9 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 10 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 11 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 12 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 13 | The permanent members of the Security Council , who during the cold war were excluded from some operations , are being looked to more and more . |
| 14 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 15 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 16 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 17 | Priests in the Tambov area , the centre of peasant revolt in 1921 , reported in 1922 that church attendance had dropped by more than half as compared with pre-1914 . |
| 18 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 19 | ‘ They are prepared for more than just a social call , ’ Taheb said . |
| 20 | However , as with all fostering schemes , it was seen as more than just a means of putting roofs over heads . |
| 21 | When viewed from this vantage point , designing can be seen as more than just a means of creating and applying technologies : it is also revealed as a means of shaping relations between people . |
| 22 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 23 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 24 | The work which our consulting engineers have done in conjunction with engineers from York City Council , show in very broad terms , that the existing radial routes within the Greater York area , were all in the period around about nineteen ninety one , all operating at more or less , design capacity . |
| 25 | He pleaded for sources to be used for more than just illustration or comprehension . |
| 26 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 27 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 28 | The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types . |
| 29 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 30 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |