Example sentences of "[verb] by more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In future years , we will maintain our pledge to prevent UBR poundage rising by more than inflation .
2 They are far removed by more than distance from their roots in Ayrshire .
3 Such an argument I do not commend to anybody else , but man is guided by more than reason alone , and in this great conflict , I wanted to play a clear and definite part .
4 Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space .
5 For official statistics have become tainted by more than disagreement : the charges being levelled against the service amount to the politicisation of knowledge , a form of intellectual corruption and a scandalous abuse of power .
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