Example sentences of "with more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she said quietly , and with more patience than she felt , ‘ Victoria , your father will not only be annoyed if you do n't go to the party tonight , he 'll also be extremely upset . |
| 2 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 3 | More to the point , does anyone have a bet with more success than i do ( should n't be difficult ) . |
| 4 | In October 1938 , a second attempt was made to secure a united opposition to a National candidate , this time with more success than at Aylesbury . |
| 5 | One ufologist who collects information with more purpose than most is Ken Phillips , a downbeat ex-teacher who runs a support group for British abductees . |
| 6 | Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been . |
| 7 | Truly a top class outfit with more experience than you can shake a stick at . |
| 8 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 9 | Then later , as his speed and timing improve and after gaining a certain amount of success over his own ranks , he can go a step higher and spar with a student with more experience than himself . |
| 10 | Well , so long as no one tells Phena , everything should be all right , should n't it ? ’ she asked with more hope than expectation . |
| 11 | But she was also distant kin to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and thus treated with more consideration than Isabel . |
| 12 | ‘ Ease up on the populace , creeps , ’ said I with more heroism than an entire Audi Murphy season . |
| 13 | In spite of these problems which suggest that the data should be interpreted with more caution than other information that originated in the WHO collaborative studies , the effect of maternal age on early and intermediate fetal mortality is unmistakable . |
| 14 | Walks on the beach also need to be undertaken with more caution if the tides are unknown . |
| 15 | His voice was cold and contemptuous ; he could n't have spoken with more disdain if he had tried . |
| 16 | The children in the Extract deal with their findings with more maturity as they appreciate the different species and new findings . |
| 17 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 18 | Other changes are also required to reverse the trend towards centralisation and authorities with more responsibility than power . |
| 19 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 20 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 21 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 22 | Men with more sense than we ever had . |
| 23 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 24 | He began the campaign with more support than all his rivals combined , but it has trickled through his fingers . |
| 25 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |
| 26 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 27 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 28 | Now Mr Albert , with more ability than Hank thought such an old fogey could exhibit , had shown him that he could look quite as dignified as Captain Dawson , not a bent peasant like Grandfather Palichuk or a rugged , outdoor type like his father , but a very respectable townsman called Hank Stych . |
| 29 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 30 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |