Example sentences of "more [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 2 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 3 | Sailors were not expected to undertake more than their normal duties on board ship ; should they , however , be injured as a consequence of " warlike operations " , they would be entitled to a pension or gratuity , and should they lose their lives , dependent relatives would be granted compensation . |
| 4 | Sunderland , at least , earned their place in the final with a conventional semi-final win , which is more than their victorious rivals could say . |
| 5 | Leaders of the military establishment do not , any more than their civilian colleagues , define their economy by its defects . |
| 6 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 7 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 8 | They are paid fifteen percent more than their British collegues working at nearby laboratiies . |
| 9 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 10 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 11 | As they sat at breakfast , eating a meal hearty even by North Country standards , both of them chewed over more than their fried goodies . |
| 12 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 13 | Moreover , on the old system where teachers shared responsibility for more than their own lessons , they were brought much more closely into contact with one another , in an informal way . |
| 14 | Companies in the countries which were accumulating rapidly were investing much more than their retained profits — borrowing the rest from the banks or money market . |
| 15 | She is little more than her blue eyes and green shawl , the blue and the green undismayed by the yellows and reds of the book , as the girl is by her father . |
| 16 | The other men moved in , and between them they tore all her clothes off , an intense frenzy , until she stood in front of them , whimpering naked in nothing more than her flat walking-shoes . |
| 17 | The brilliance of his gaze was almost more than her steeled defences could stand . |
| 18 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 19 | The frailty of such buildings is indicated in William Godwin 's novel , Caleb Williams ( 1794 ) , for Mr Falkland seems to be able to demolish a cottage with little more than his bare hands in order to prevent a fire from spreading . |
| 20 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 21 | It may be of vital importance to the seller to get the money instead of the land ; but he will rarely succeed in getting more than his out-of-pocket expenses . |
| 22 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 23 | After World War II the Crown in Parliament of the United Kingdom well understood that it could no longer govern the King Emperor 's non-British , any more than his British subjects who were not represented , and could not be represented , in Parliament . |
| 24 | Faldo demeaned himself more than his intended targets with an ungracious speech after again conquering Muirfield . |
| 25 | Dusty Hare , true , played as well for England as he did for his club , and deserved to win even more than his 25 caps . |
| 26 | But still , Coe says he enjoyed writing this one far more than his previous books , and it shows ; The Dwarves of Death is a light and pacey piece of whimsical London noir . |
| 27 | She heard nothing more than his urgent whisperings , half Italian , half English , his groans and her cries accompanied by the futile protests of the bed as he took her , slowly , confidently and with an expertise she was too inexperienced to appreciate . |
| 28 | The boots had platform soles and they cost him more than his weekly wages at the warehouse . |
| 29 | ‘ It might be more than your delicate ears could stand . |
| 30 | They 're stealing our weapons , you do n't seem to grasp that — ; we 'll be outnumbered and we 'll need more than our superior skills — we 'll need the Almighty on our side . ’ |