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

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1 ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’
2 However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind .
3 However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name .
4 The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services .
5 Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events .
6 Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront .
7 True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes .
8 He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies .
9 Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ .
10 It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all .
11 I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual .
12 In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract .
13 Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved .
14 Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it .
15 Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome .
16 The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it .
17 In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting .
18 Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich .
19 But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim .
20 Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year .
21 You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage !
22 I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather .
23 At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields .
24 If you earn more than the LEL , you pay contributions on all earnings — a big disincentive to raising your hours , and therefore your pay , by that small amount .
25 I walked down the aisle , sobbing uncontrollably , in a cream Wallis suit with hand-made replacement buttons costing more than the suit .
26 With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high .
27 Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting .
28 Secondly , it allowed them to make virtue out of a necessity by pushing law and order once more ideologically centre-stage as another area where the individual could do more than the State .
29 ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal .
30 ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee .
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