Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 2 | Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well . |
| 3 | Pumlumon said in a voice of utmost astonishment , ‘ But has your honour never heard of the Draoicht Suan ? ’ and was instantly hushed by Bith of the Bog-Hat , who had by now sensed that something was wrong , being a gnome of more percipience than his fellows and who liked , no more than Fenella , the manner in which Goibniu was eyeing them all . |
| 4 | Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been . |
| 5 | Benny took the bus to Dublin on the first day of term with more trepidation than she would ever have expected . |
| 6 | The afternoon was full of towering performances right through the team but none bossed the action with more grandeur than Paul Ince , described as ‘ a colossus ’ by Coventry boss Bobby Gould . |
| 7 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |
| 8 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 9 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 10 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 11 | They were perpetrated by my great-aunt Olwen , an eccentric lady with more enthusiasm than talent ! ’ |
| 12 | He began the campaign with more support than all his rivals combined , but it has trickled through his fingers . |
| 13 | Governments regard conflicts of interest in the financial sector with more concern than those in the non-financial sectors of the economy for two main reasons . |
| 14 | It may require consideration whether some body of men who combined official experience with legal knowledge and who were entirely independent of the Government of the day , might not enforce official law with more effectiveness than any Division of the High Court . |
| 15 | I 'm also baffled about the first half in more respect than one . |
| 16 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 17 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 18 | High wartime taxation was placing a heavy strain on the nation , and the Tories repeatedly claimed that they could " manage the War with more Frugality than you Whigs " . |
| 19 | ‘ The Reverend Father , ’ Athelstan replied smoothly , ‘ would like a bowl of thick leek soup , some bread , and a cup of wine with more water than claret . ’ |
| 20 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 21 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 22 | She shook out the clothes over the scrub with more alacrity than she had shown at the washing , she was released from her error , she had escaped , just . |
| 23 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 24 | Whenever controversies came , it was observed , he gathered every author who could throw light on them ; he saw both sides of a case with more imagination than most of his contemporaries . |
| 25 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't mean to , ’ said I , slipping into the first-person with more delicacy than a dog log in a dowager 's duffle bag . |
| 27 | Ashley yelled , flourishing a bottle of generic whisky with more enthusiasm than care ; she cracked the bottle off the oak-panelled wall of the castle 's crowded entrance hall , but without , apparently , causing damage to either . |
| 28 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 29 | The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther . |
| 30 | In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’ |