Example sentences of "more [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 2 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 3 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 4 | If you 're driving in a flash car , driving a porsche you 'll pay more than in a mini . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 6 | seventeen and since then people have discovered more and in a sense the list is more or less limitless . |