Example sentences of "more [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session . |
| 2 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 3 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 4 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 5 | Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps . |
| 6 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 7 | Ferguson , who was more than twice over the legal limit , pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs . |
| 8 | A PUBLICAN faces jail after being convicted of causing the death of a 16-year-old jogger by driving dangerously while more than twice over the drink drive limit . |
| 9 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 10 | The school 's headteacher Mary Parkin said the line of coins stretched more than twice round the hall . |
| 11 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 12 | Father got it more than once over the years . |
| 13 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 14 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 15 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 16 | Was this what love led to , McAllister thought more than once during the long afternoon : this agony , this terrible suffering ? |
| 17 | Not a bad idea to remind them of this more than once during the development of an estate ; and remember , acting for either seller or buyer , that on the granting of a long lease of a flat a plan is essential . |
| 18 | As they talked , they came back more than once to the mystery of the three files which Derek had been shown . |
| 19 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 20 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 21 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 22 | Although that interest has been , in the course of my career , swept aside more than once by the demands of administration and politics , it will , I hope , never be finally submerged and killed . |
| 23 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 24 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 25 | The example of the bewildered , middle-aged lady accused of shoplifting was mentioned more than once in the interviews as the sort of person who needed help and made the scheme worthwhile . |
| 26 | Each calls for political decision , frequently more than once in the course of hammering out a policy . |
| 27 | More than once in the past 50 years the concept of readability measurement and prediction has been castigated as facile and simplistic , despite the earnest attempts of most readability researchers themselves to portray their work in a balanced and untendentious way . |
| 28 | It has been said more than once in the decided cases that section 7(4) can not receive different constructions according to whether resort to the subsection arises for one of the reasons under section 7(3) or because the driver exercises his right to claim to have his breath specimen replaced under section 8(2) . |
| 29 | Hence , fathers are counted once only in the birth certificate analysis , but may appear more than once in the interview analysis . |
| 30 | Of the remaining absences only 42 types occurred more than once in the 46,000 words . |