Example sentences of "[vb base] more [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 2 | If you earn more than the LEL , you pay contributions on all earnings — a big disincentive to raising your hours , and therefore your pay , by that small amount . |
| 3 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 4 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 5 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 6 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 7 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 8 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 9 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 10 | However , I am only too aware that falls damage more than the dignity . |
| 11 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 12 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 13 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 14 | For obvious reasons the dangers of such malpractice are endemic in policing , and it may be ‘ respectable fears ’ about it which fluctuate more than the extent of abuse . |