Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 2 | With profits virtually wiped out , the payout has been slashed by more than half . |
| 3 | The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century . |
| 4 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 5 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 6 | All too often , the antecedents of revolution are separated by more than a human lifespan from their fruition . |
| 7 | ‘ They are prepared for more than just a social call , ’ Taheb said . |
| 8 | David Linley , 31 , and 22-year-old Serena , who is the grand-daughter of wealthy Lord Harrington , have been dating for more than a year . |
| 9 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 10 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 13 | In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price . |
| 14 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 15 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 16 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 17 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 18 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 19 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 20 | Journeys of Business are performed with more than double expedition … |
| 21 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 22 | I see now the inadequacy of this explanation ; but , apart from the fact that at that age one 's loyalties are defended with more than usual zeal , my conviction , in the Oxford of that time , was that Collingwood was the only alternative to linguistic philosophy . |
| 23 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 24 | Bonuses are spreading to more than half of all managing directors . |
| 25 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 26 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 27 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |
| 28 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 29 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 30 | For him , the " Panopticon principle " ( p 216 ) should be regarded as more than just a particular example of ingenuity in architectural design ; rather : " … it was an event in the " history of the human mind " . |