Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 2 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 3 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 4 | For anyone who does a lot of knitting , the initial time spent learning how to use the program will be more than compensated for , because once you have saved your work on to disk , the same garment shape and / or stitch pattern can be used time and time again . |
| 5 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 6 | The insects are only an annoyance on the rare days when there is n't a breeze blowing , and are more than compensated for by the wealth of bird life in the area And it is not only birds . |
| 7 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 8 | This is more of a glider trait and , while it takes a little getting used to , it is more than compensated for by the aircraft 's power-off glide abilities . |
| 9 | However , his sufferings in the Sahara were more than compensated for when the Sports Council voted him Sports Photographer of the Year for 1989 in recognition of his work in the Super Marathon . |
| 10 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 11 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 12 | It must have more than compensated for being shot down , or blown to bits . |
| 13 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 14 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 15 | Hence the loss of areas 3 + 5 to the UK is more than compensated for by the remittance of profits from Germany , as area 10 is greater than areas 3 + 5 . |
| 16 | Her face was too square and her features were too irregular , though most people thought that these defects were more than compensated by her radiant smile and long-lashed hazel eyes . |
| 17 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 18 | The loss of earning power experienced by such as doctors , lawyers , etc. , can be recouped fairly quickly after training ( Tumin and others have estimated that no more than ten years is generally required ) , and is more than compensated by higher rewards after this time . |
| 19 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 20 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 21 | About five million people in Britain have tried cannabis ; more than go to church , art galleries or football matches . |
| 22 | Lutyens 's ideal of an orderly life run by efficient , invisible servants is more than realised in this immaculately appointed domain . |
| 23 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 24 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 25 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 26 | But Karajan did more than breathe with players during live music-making ; he was happy to grant them what Galway called their sense of ‘ fantasy ’ : If somebody had a good fantasy … |
| 27 | Once again the situation of the Black community in Britain — people who have more than contributed to the building of this country — comes into question . |
| 28 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 29 | There is nothing she enjoys more than to talk on her favourite subject . |
| 30 | Mr Ferguson would enjoy nothing more than to arrive at Liverpool on April 26 as champions . |