Example sentences of "be more [noun] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as the universe expanded and cooled , the antiquarks would annihilate with the quarks , but since there would be more quarks than antiquarks , a small excess of quarks would remain . |
| 2 | There 'll be more rail than road in this country of ours one day . |
| 3 | Usually there will be more processes than accumulator arrays , in which case one array is allocated to all the low-priority processes ( the contents being saved and restored as before ) , and the rest will be allocated one array to each high-priority process , to improve process switching time . |
| 4 | It might , however , be the method of choice against mosquitoes in urban regions where there may be more houses than breeding places , where there is likely to be opposition to house spraying , and where the breeding places are limited and more easily identified . |
| 5 | there seems to be more men than women eat your bakewell tart then |
| 6 | China has provided 400 tons of pork and Cuba an unspecified quantity of poultry for the birthday celebrations , but there will be more circuses than bread to lift popular morale in a joyless nation . |
| 7 | Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism . |
| 8 | For centuries , European people ate the Solan goose on Fridays , believing it to be more fish than bird . |
| 9 | All week long , the Hollywood gossip about this case was of drugs , mysticism and off-beat sex , and for once there may be more truth than fantasy in the flashy talk of the town . ’ |
| 10 | Erm so erm but of course I mean t to make the point because it does n't really contradict what you 're saying Heather because of course the rather more extreme kinds of Protestant Sects that do emphasise for example erm er narrow dogmatic teaching much more so you could say that erm and I think this would perhaps be the answer to , to Oliver 's point to some extent because it goes back to Dean 's original point that erm here we 're we we 're talking about a general theory of groups , but of course some groups can be more groupie than others . |
| 11 | As it is , there 'll be more policemen than punters on that patch . ’ |