Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they guilty of more abuse than domestic companies ? |
| 2 | At that stage he did n't seem to have any effect on anything in terms of erm , alerting anybody , so erm we need to er , we need to deal with that with more action than we ha have at the moment . |
| 3 | Whether we discover them in the landscape or in ourselves , we are imbuing the places concerned with more significance than they would otherwise possess . |
| 4 | A SKIING holiday is for those with more money than sense , giving you the chance to meet a lot of people you could meet at home for nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ Ease up on the populace , creeps , ’ said I with more heroism than an entire Audi Murphy season . |
| 6 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 7 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 8 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |
| 9 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 10 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 11 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 12 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 13 | In the West Cumbria project , funded by DOE , evaluation of existing geological records and mine plans has enabled solid and drift maps of the Coal Measures and Lower Carboniferous sequences to be compiled at 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 in more detail than was possible during the previous survey almost 60 years ago . |