Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 2 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 3 | Mr O'Gara now expects that proportion to shrink rapidly as sales of the PSV-2 more than double this year . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 5 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 6 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 7 | It should always be much more than just another suit . ’ |
| 8 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 9 | Although the distributor actually purchases goods from the manufacturer to resell on his own account , he is much more than just another customer . |
| 10 | This record is a kind of respect-is-due gesture — a splurge of celeb guests , a handful of Jimenez relatives and a smattering of loopy polkas to show Flaco off as more than just another name on the studio credits . |
| 11 | 22COMMENT THE GUARDIANWednesday November 8 1989 More than just another disaster . |
| 12 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 13 | Whether you come to expand your waist , see the sights or go shopping , you 'll soon realise that Frankfurt is a lot more than just another business city — Frankfurt is fun . |
| 14 | Whatever the final verdict may be , EP has shown itself , yet again , to be more than just another area of applied computer science . |
| 15 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 16 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 17 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 18 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 19 | One of the authors summarized the position in the words : ‘ Since 1922 we have come to recognise more and more that chemotherapy in the sense in which Ehrlich introduced the term , is more of a dream than a reality ’ . |
| 20 | There is more but just this sample suggests the deep and unintelligible waters it is easy to fall into when trying to be explicit about multimedia . |