Example sentences of "more [subord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 2 | The emphasis rhythm , inflection , tone of voice and above all the natural pauses convey more than their factual meaning . |
| 3 | Hormonal secretions here reach a maximum , and her breasts , already made firmer by the growing excitement , now reach anything up to 25 per cent more than their normal size . |
| 4 | Sailors were not expected to undertake more than their normal duties on board ship ; should they , however , be injured as a consequence of " warlike operations " , they would be entitled to a pension or gratuity , and should they lose their lives , dependent relatives would be granted compensation . |
| 5 | Sunderland , at least , earned their place in the final with a conventional semi-final win , which is more than their victorious rivals could say . |
| 6 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 7 | Thus Norway sent two-thirds of its population increase to the United States , surpassed only by the unfortunate Irish who sent more than their entire increase abroad : the country lost population consistently in every decade after the Great Famine of 1846–7 . |
| 8 | The risk for the vendor of assets is the possibility of balancing charges if the assets are sold for more than their written-down value . |
| 9 | Leaders of the military establishment do not , any more than their civilian colleagues , define their economy by its defects . |
| 10 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 11 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 12 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 13 | They are paid fifteen percent more than their British collegues working at nearby laboratiies . |
| 14 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 15 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 16 | As they sat at breakfast , eating a meal hearty even by North Country standards , both of them chewed over more than their fried goodies . |
| 17 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 18 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 19 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 20 | Moreover , on the old system where teachers shared responsibility for more than their own lessons , they were brought much more closely into contact with one another , in an informal way . |
| 21 | Companies in the countries which were accumulating rapidly were investing much more than their retained profits — borrowing the rest from the banks or money market . |
| 22 | Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions . |
| 23 | The breasts take more than their fair share of impacts both during competition and during training . |
| 24 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 25 | If all these are in order than see if anyone has replaced any of the chassis outriggers in the past ( as for the some reason 6 cyl station wagons suffer more than their fair share of chassis rust ) and that they have been replaced accurately . |
| 26 | A glance at the list of institutions discarding books will show that the largest single category is teacher-training colleges , which have been subjected to more than their fair share of amalgamations and closures in recent years . |
| 27 | They often require more than their fair share of your time . |
| 28 | Otherwise in some parts of the country enterprising local authorities , having a high standard of efficiency , would collect more than their fair share of taxpayers ' money from the Exchequer to the detriment of other taxpayers in the less enterprising areas of the country . |
| 29 | Railways seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of curiosities . |
| 30 | The only aspect of play where 'Mere could be said to have played to their ability was in the lineout where Gibbons and Daly won more than their fair share of ball . |