Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century . |
| 2 | David Linley , 31 , and 22-year-old Serena , who is the grand-daughter of wealthy Lord Harrington , have been dating for more than a year . |
| 3 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 4 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 5 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 6 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 7 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 8 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 9 | Bonuses are spreading to more than half of all managing directors . |
| 10 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 11 | I 'm looking for more than a secretary , you understand . |
| 12 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 13 | Football , and Swindon Town step up their promotion challenge at Southend tonight … and they 'll be hoping for more than Oxford and Hereford got last night … |
| 14 | The glistening palm leaves of Bob Crowley 's immense , jungly set enclose a tin-roofed veranda where Tennessee William 's outcasts are melting from more than the Mexican weather . |
| 15 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 16 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 17 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 18 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
| 19 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 20 | She half believed him now , simply because she knew a man like Luke would n't invent something of this nature , but the belief was shot through with a conviction that he was talking about more than sating an inconvenient lust . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 22 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |