Example sentences of "to more [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 2 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 3 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 4 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 5 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 6 | I feel assured , however , no one regrets the inconvenience and annoyance our supporters were subjected to more than the Coventry executive … |
| 7 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 8 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 9 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 10 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 11 | The full basic pension for a man or woman ( April 1992/93 ) is £54.15 a week , £86.70 for a married couple ( unless your spouse is entitled to more than the £32.55 spouse 's addition on his/her own contributions , in which case you will receive more ) . |
| 12 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 13 | But just let the poor little woman open her legs to more than the statutory one , and she 's cheap , a woman of easy virtue , a social outcast . |
| 14 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 15 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |