Example sentences of "more [conj] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love that land more than all the rest of the world . |
| 2 | He had scorned her honour , but she had more than all the rest , Isabel thought bitterly . |
| 3 | But in recompense I have received a gift worth more than all the rest put together . |
| 4 | Endill was sad at this because the Bookman was very clever and probably knew more than all the teachers put together . |
| 5 | I remember those more than all the dolls I had — especially a little box of blue beads . ’ |
| 6 | We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed . |
| 7 | John Frain made it two and it was going to take more than all the kings horses and men to put Town back together again … |
| 8 | By then legal costs alone will have run to more than half the price of the toilet . |
| 9 | More than half the company 's turnover is now derived from overseas . |
| 10 | More than half the output from our two factories at Cornard and Chilton is exported , mainly to continental Europe , but new and diverse markets as far apart as Hungary and Japan have been opened up . |
| 11 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 12 | Then it will be abolished , along with more than half the country 's other trains . |
| 13 | Some claim that the numbers are bound to improve now that more than half the country 's workforce is female or from a minority . |
| 14 | About a third of the continent and more than half the country 's farmlands are , as a result , now affected by soil erosion , and conservative estimates put the cost of ‘ repair ’ at 1 billion dollars . |
| 15 | I had to change the A-level economics syllabus to take account of yet more dotty ideas that poured out of the Department of Economic Affairs , of national plans that were revised because they did not work and of huge methods of distributing money through regional policy , where more than half the country was part of a development area . |
| 16 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 17 | In South Hams , for example , the towns of Totnes , Kingsbridge , Ivybridge and Dartmouth have not been designated ‘ rural ’ , and they contain more than half the council 's stock , with many houses located not on large estates but in pleasant settings . |
| 18 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 19 | In a recent Lake District survey , only 48 per cent of house purchasers were local , with more than half the purchases being for holiday accommodation , second homes or retirement ( Shucksmith 1981 ) . |
| 20 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Damage arising from a direct collision between vehicles insured by the parties to this Agreement and the Policy issued by one of those parties being a fleet insurance or part of a fleet insurance as defined hereunder a ) and not granting indemnity against such damage to the insured vehicle or b ) being subject to an excess of more than $100 in respect of such damage , that party shall pay a ) one half of the loss of the other party in respect of the damage to their Insured 's vehicle or b ) not more than half the excess save and except that if the amount recoverable is $50 or less this clause will be inoperative . |
| 22 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 23 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 24 | In many species , if a female mates with two males , the second male by some means or other manages to fertilize many more than half the eggs . |
| 25 | More than half the parishioners were Irish Roman Catholics , who went to two churches . |
| 26 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 27 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 28 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 29 | More than half the sows are kept in close confinement systems . |
| 30 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |