Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices . |
| 2 | Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices . |
| 3 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 4 | Within the pattern of large-scale commercial farming , the independent smallholder can still provide more than his share of surplus food for the urban population , yet keep as top priority the conservation of his main capital — the soil . |
| 5 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 6 | A woman without wealth will have few suitors , but a woman who can produce a large dowry will have more than her share of acquisitive Strephons writing sonnets . |
| 7 | Margaret said she thought General Francis must have more than his pension to run a Rolls , own fishing rights , and pay a full-time manservant . |
| 8 | However , you will also have more than your share of compensations . |
| 9 | The benefits principle argues that people who receive more than their share of public spending should pay more than their share of tax revenues . |
| 10 | I can get more because my father does have a minicassette recorder and a stock of tapes . |
| 11 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |