Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing I longed for more than to get into my car , slam the door behind me , close out this looming world of rage and violence . |
| 2 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 3 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 4 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 5 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 6 | The way we look at it is , there 's people out there want to kill me , and the authorities let you in here and give you access to more than we will probably ever get . |
| 7 | Instead of keeping numbers of senior registrars constant , JPAC 's quotas will see them rising by more than half to over 5100 , while career registrar quotas are more than 40% over target at almost 4700 . |
| 8 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 9 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 10 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 11 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 12 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 13 | West German electoral law prescribes that in principle the magnitude of a constituency should not deviate by more than 25% from the average , and that if it deviates by more than 33.3% its boundaries must be redrawn . |
| 14 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ You may find it results in more than you can handle . ’ |
| 16 | An offer must be made if the holding of an offeror and its concert parties reaches 30 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights or , if the holding has already achieved this level , it increases by more than 1 per cent in any period of 12 months . |
| 17 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 18 | In Scale 1 he protests that he speaks of more than he has directly experienced : In the second book which complements the material in the first , there is an often remarked upon change of tone : the reservation and distancing of Scale 1 is absent from the imagistic structures which embody his thought and insight in Scale 2 . |
| 19 | GUIL : He 's always talking about us — there are n't two people living who he dotes on more than us . |
| 20 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 21 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 23 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
| 24 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |
| 25 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 26 | It argues on more than equal terms with Marxism , Existentialism , Nationalism , Capitalism . |