Example sentences of "more [subord] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 2 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 3 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 4 | The proposal seems no more than a window dressing exercise . |
| 5 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 6 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 7 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 8 | The attack was blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year to overthrow the government and turn Egypt into a purist Islamic state . |
| 9 | More than a year passed . |
| 10 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 11 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 12 | The attack is being blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year trying to undermine the country 's lucrative tourist industry . |
| 13 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 14 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 15 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 16 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
| 17 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 19 | Tandy 's US retail sales for Aprch totalled $274.9m , up 13% on last year and stores open for more than a year rose 4% . |
| 20 | The figure for those out of work for more than a year rose from 73,800 at January , 1992 , to 85,300 at January , 1993 . |
| 21 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 22 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 23 | The number of people out of work for more than a year has more than doubled since long-term unemployment began rising in October 1990 . |
| 24 | This means that the breeding cycle takes more than a year to complete , with the result that the birds are unable to breed every year . |
| 25 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 26 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |
| 27 | Of the total sample of around 95,000 trees , 23.5 per cent were more than a quarter defoliated in 1992 , and were thus classified as damaged , compared with 22.2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 28 | The countries with the most damaged trees were the United Kingdom ( with 58.3 per cent more than a quarter defoliated ) , and the Czech Republic , Poland , Latvia , Slovakia , Estonia , Norway , Germany , Denmark , Netherlands , Bulgaria , Portugal , Hungary and Luxembourg . |
| 29 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 30 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |