Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 2 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 3 | 3 A class of words may undergo regular change of form to provide for certain changing circumstances , in particular : ( a ) They may change form because they appear in more than one element of a structure : It is my father ; It is my father 's car . |
| 4 | The frescoes allow more scope , but even they show little more than one event at a time . |
| 5 | Between them they earn slightly more than £14,000 . |
| 6 | As they talked , they came back more than once to the mystery of the three files which Derek had been shown . |
| 7 | In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come . |
| 8 | Last year alone they had more than 400,000 winners and they paid out more than £40 million . |
| 9 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 10 | Police said they rounded up more than 19,000 supporters of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party across the country yesterday as they headed to New Delhi . |
| 11 | When first designated , the areas already had a population of 945,000 ; now they contain rather more than 2 millions . |
| 12 | Although Apple 's Macintosh machines have always offered high-resolution screens and excellent graphics and audio architecture , they represent little more than 12 per cent of the personal computers in use today . |