Example sentences of "more [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowry and a paper he wrote in 1951 which between 1961 and 1975 was referenced on 50000 occasions — five times more than its nearest rival . |
| 2 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 3 | But St Ives has won more than its fair share of new business — such as the new PC Magazine computer title — and although magazine profits were down , that was offset by impressive market share gains in financial printing . |
| 4 | The Scottish Premier League has generated more than its fair share of jokes , and many still get a game . |
| 5 | The window had , during the summer months , more than its fair share of flies , whilst the proprietor was never to be seen in the shop without a flat black cap on his head and cigarette end dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 6 | It 's a demanding course with , some would say , more than its fair share of natural hazards . |
| 7 | It was practised in ancient Egypt and in Greece , and for ordinary people these special dreams were relied on for their curative powers more than their predictive value . |
| 8 | Perhaps this is why some overweight people feel the cold more than their normal-weight fellows . |
| 9 | Before looking at the relationship between mortality rates and social class over the years , it is worth referring to some evidence which suggest that similar medical care benefits upper-class patients more than their lower-class counterparts . |
| 10 | They also use these variants more than their male counterparts , although they follow the expected sex-differentiation patterns with respect to other phonological variables ( see chapter 6 for a discussion of the Clonard pattern ) . |
| 11 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 12 | The Western states have always possessed a more extensive range of military bases and facilities in the Third' World than the Soviet Union , and American strategists have relied on such facilities more than their Soviet counterparts to sustain regional and global commitments and military contingency plans . |
| 13 | Drivers in the Community 's northern states use unleaded more than their southern counterparts , while Germany alone uses as much as all 11 other member states put together . |
| 14 | The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art . |
| 15 | Sure the mechanics are similar , but those tiny little extras mount up to a whole lot more than their actual sum . |
| 16 | But if we can view ‘ nationalization ’ as the ironing out of local political characteristics during the 1950s and 1960s , ‘ reappraisal ’ has meant more than their simple re-appearance during the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 17 | Only Ebbw Vale have conceded more than their 431 points . |
| 18 | ‘ The people of Brom borough have got more than their fair share of industry on their doorsteps . |
| 19 | ‘ The people of Bromborough have got more than their fair share of industry on their doorsteps . |
| 20 | This was no doubt a sign of wealth and status : the beautiful austerity of Biedermayer interiors had reflected the straitness of Germanic provincial bourgeois finances more than their innate taste , and the furnishings of servants ' rooms in the bourgeois houses were bleak enough . |
| 21 | She 'd said she loved her father more than her uniformed claimant . |
| 22 | Pauline Bishop has done more than her fair share of globe-trotting . |
| 23 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 24 | The use of ‘ Ba ’ registered with Wilson more than her own name — she had not realised Mrs Eckley was on such familiar terms . |
| 25 | I love you more than me own self . |
| 26 | A simple rule — To use when making good the Inbound Track is : QDM more than your required QDM … |
| 27 | ‘ Put a sock in it , you old cow , you 've caused more than your usual quota of trouble today . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I 'm offering you the job as manager at a pound a week more than your present salary . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What is the matter , you Christian men , that you so greatly esteeme so little portion of golde more than your own quietnesse … |
| 30 | Among Britain 's backs only Andy Gregory has been capped more than his former colleagues at Widnes , and the Wigan scrum half himself makes a comeback from injury against Barrow tomorrow , his fitness still in doubt . |