Example sentences of "[be] more [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry .
2 Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic .
3 But as Duke he was to be more than just the Count of Poitou .
4 She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever .
5 Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme .
6 Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population .
7 Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 .
8 The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average .
9 If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line .
10 Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index .
11 Pearson 's agent comments : ‘ Pugwash is more than just the signature tune , and it 's not just the accordion .
12 But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark .
13 It is more than just the onset of literal night ; it is a night of the normal senses , allowing other means of knowing to arise .
14 But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR .
15 There is much evidence to suggest that reading is more than just the recognition of individual characters .
16 that the load is more than just the initial action of my division
17 Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image .
18 Also , it is more than likely the case , however , that how a society designs manners for close personal and social relationships can not be totally separated from its understanding of the ‘ proper ’ treatment of its enemies .
19 It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians .
20 Now it 's feared that there 's more than just the family fortunes at stake .
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