Example sentences of "[det] more [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
2 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
3 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
4 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
5 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
6 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
7 | ‘ Much more than the rest of them . |
8 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
9 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
10 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
11 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
12 | These men know a lot about hijacks ; much more than the US Marines or , probably , your own soldiers , Prime Minister . |
13 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
14 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
15 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
16 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
17 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
18 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
19 | Much more than the name has changed . |
20 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
21 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
22 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
23 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
24 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
25 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
26 | The sheep are not much more than the primroses . |
27 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
28 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
29 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
30 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |