Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a songwriter and musician himself , Terry Merrick is always prepared to act as more than just an engineer , where necessary putting his skill at playing and song arranging at the disposal of clients . |
| 2 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 3 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 4 | Inhuman stabbed with more than human force , |
| 5 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 6 | She suffered severely from arthritis , was unable to read for more than short periods of time , was bored and confused by television , and for long periods lay inert , half dozing , half listening to the radio . |
| 7 | To quote the dictionary again , the word ‘ adventure ’ contains in it an element of the unexpected , of chance and Fate , which means that the protagonist must be able to call on more than normal attributes to meet the challenge set for him . |
| 8 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 9 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 10 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 11 | It is not possible to forecast in more than very general terms what the job opportunities will be in three or four years ' time . |
| 12 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |