Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] more [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With people saying things with a meaning they did not know , or with more meaning than they knew . ’ |
| 2 | We have been asked over the years to vote for a freeze on medical school places when juniors were unemployed , for more manpower when they were overworked , and for more consultants when they were having problems with their careers . |
| 3 | GOING to the theatre , concerts and art galleries remains largely the privilege of the well-off and well-educated , and of more women than men , research shows . |
| 4 | By the thirties there were picture-halls galore , over 130 , and with more cinemas than any other city in the world outside the United States , Glasgow was no mean Cinema-City . |
| 5 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 6 | Instead she said quietly , and with more patience than she felt , ‘ Victoria , your father will not only be annoyed if you do n't go to the party tonight , he 'll also be extremely upset . |
| 7 | It went faster and with more noise than the roundabouts for little children with engines and ducks and bicycles fixed on . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man . |
| 9 | ‘ No sooner is the dish empty than it is filled again — and with more food than before ! ’ |
| 10 | Now working in a larger kitchen and with more staff than in his previous position as head chef at Turner 's restaurant in London , he is able to produce more intricate dishes with a greater number of components to them . |
| 11 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 12 | And as important as the invention of teeth was , reproduction out of water via the amniote egg was an even more eventful turning point , and in more ways than one . |
| 13 | By ! he had that , and in more ways than one . |
| 14 | Luke Taylor Eoghan Burns , who celebrates his first birthday on Saturday , is a precious baby — and to more people than his mother . |