Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graeme Hick hopes to see plenty more of the tourists this summer — this innings wo n't have worried them — |
| 2 | One more for the body-count . |
| 3 | But there was always room for one more in the Conspiracy hunt . |
| 4 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
| 5 | Lowell sensed that there was something more to the question than a further sounding-out about a commercial proposition . |
| 6 | He sat back in his chair , with an air of waiting , and expecting something more to the point . |
| 7 | Something more to the point . |
| 8 | right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video |
| 9 | What seems to be required now is something more in the nature of a decision . |
| 10 | By the time the echo reaches the bat again , the decay in its intensity is proportional , not to the distance of the fly from the bat , not even to the square of that distance , but to something more like the square of the square — the fourth power , of the distance . |
| 11 | One of the earliest collaborators was the conductor Leopold Stokowski , who happily agreed to experiments to divide the Philadelphia Orchestra into individually miked sections for increased clarity , presumably in search of something more like the clarity he perceived from the conductor 's rostrum ( 14 ) . |
| 12 | One picks up a suggestion of this position calcifying into something more like the outlook of a crusty old gentleman in a club in a letter he wrote in June 1938 to Barfield . |
| 13 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 14 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 15 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 16 | Anna and Mr Cheng talked to the police , but the police could tell them nothing more about the telephone call to the airport . |
| 17 | He wanted to hear nothing more for the present , and he put a finger to her lips . |
| 18 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 19 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 20 | Our overall consumption figure of 22.6mpg P which included testing at Millbrook , about 500 motorway miles and lots of urban motoring — is a reasonable result but nothing more in the light of the identically powerful Volvo 850 's 25.9mpg . |
| 21 | Nothing more in the margins , nothing at the end . |
| 22 | You do n't want to say anything more on the self employment ? |
| 23 | Suddenly Constance felt she did n't want to hear anything more about the past . |
| 24 | ‘ Did she say anything more about the messages for Maxwell ? ’ |
| 25 | " Have you heard anything more about the Fairfax business ? " she asked . |
| 26 | ‘ Anything more from the Delos ? ’ |