Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 2 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 3 | No player , with the single exception of Ian Botham , is photographed or talked about more than Graham Gooch , whose story has just been reliably and thoroughly told by Ivo Tennant in a book boldly entitled Graham Gooch , The Biography ( £15.99 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |
| 5 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 6 | They are far removed by more than distance from their roots in Ayrshire . |
| 7 | Such an argument I do not commend to anybody else , but man is guided by more than reason alone , and in this great conflict , I wanted to play a clear and definite part . |
| 8 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 9 | Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space . |
| 10 | For official statistics have become tainted by more than disagreement : the charges being levelled against the service amount to the politicisation of knowledge , a form of intellectual corruption and a scandalous abuse of power . |