Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 2 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 3 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |
| 4 | This approach does not solve the problem of continuity that depends on more than the single preceding node . |
| 5 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 6 | But he has not convinced his hometown audience that the larger goal of the Gulf war — the crafting of a new world order — amounts to more than a string of words . |
| 7 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 8 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 9 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 10 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 11 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 12 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 13 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding that the development of notions of democracy and the extension of the franchise have rendered the Queen 's participation formal and that of the Lords subservient to that of the Commons , Parliament still consists of more than the House of Commons . |
| 15 | However , even if the price of the house rises by more than the rate of inflation ( ie a real capital gain has been made ) capital gains tax ( CGT ) is not levied . |
| 16 | The budget for the bureau rises by more than the grant . |
| 17 | On internal British politics , Ken speaks for more than the Labour leadership might imagine , but when he leaves England for abroad he starts to get very muddled-up . |
| 18 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 19 | In this article , by LTP we mean synaptic potentiation , which is both NMDA receptor-dependent and lasts for more than an hour . |
| 20 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 21 | As Provincial Editor I handled correspondents ’ news reports from more than a score of outlying communities and our Times-Herald ‘ reporter ’ for the Briercrest area was a Mrs Edna Jacques . |
| 22 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 23 | If the report runs to more than a few pages , there should always be a list of the various sections and headings to be found in the report . |