Example sentences of "[be] [verb] more [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 2 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 5 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 6 | According to a new study from the Ministry of Agriculture , one in six 2–5-year-olds are consuming more than the recommended daily intake of saccharin , largely through soft drinks . |
| 7 | But er e English er guises were favoured more than the French ones even by the French themselves . |
| 8 | Other leakages include : ( a ) the holding of excess reserves by banks — that is holding more than the minimum reserve requirement ; ( b ) an increase in the public 's desired cash holdings ; and ( c ) a net outflow of currency overseas as a result of a balance of payments deficit . |
| 9 | But if your report is to produce more than the predictable yawn then it must be different . |
| 10 | ‘ There were times when Sid James sowed dissatisfaction among the other artists by claiming that he was getting more than the others . |