Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this category belong more than half the plants universally popular among aquarists . |
| 2 | In relative terms , people forced to rely on public transport pay more than car users for their mobility . |
| 3 | However , we in this country know more than most that , unless there is a peace to keep , putting in peacekeeping forces simply places troops in danger . |
| 4 | The Abbots united for the inevitable photograph bear more than a passing resemblance to a sports team . |
| 5 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |
| 6 | This sponge superficially resembles a living bath sponge more than the other sponges in this book , being bun-shaped , with a minutely pitted external surface . |
| 7 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 8 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 9 | The existence of two rhetorics , of two different systems of understanding and explanation at such odds with one another , leads to a situation in which the lives and aspirations , wishes and needs of each company become more and more opaque to each other . |
| 10 | It is an important signal that short-term politics matter more than the longer-run question of how to house the next generation . |