Example sentences of "to [adv] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first telephone call Derek Fairfax received after reaching the office on Wednesday proved what he had begun to suspect : that the death of Maurice Abberley amounted to rather more than the newspapers had revealed . |
| 2 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 3 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 4 | SECRET tax concessions offered to British Aerospace to secure the sale of the Rover Group could take the ‘ hidden sweeteners ’ involved in the deal to substantially more than the £48 million already uncovered , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 5 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |