Example sentences of "and [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partially-sighted Mr Clarke , 72 , had been tied up and stabbed more than 40 times . |
| 2 | How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that . |
| 3 | ONE OF the amazing aspects of the crisis caused by the decision of the government to close over half the pits , and make more than 30,000 miners redundant , was their apparent surprise at the reaction of the people of the country . |
| 4 | Despite their chefs ' and St Trinians outfits , they managed to clamber up poles and leap over jumps in relay and raise more than £400 for charity . |
| 5 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 6 | Turning the pages together , they read what Luce Weston had written , getting a clear picture of someone who had loved more than she 'd hated , and given more than she 'd taken . |
| 7 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The suggested settlement , known as a multi-function polis ( MFP ) , was sponsored by Japan and involved more than 100 Japanese companies . |
| 9 | The Daily Post survey was carried out by independent market researchers and involved more than 400 parents and teachers . |
| 10 | As well as offering 21 standard items , the company makes specialist pastas for customers and has more than 500 specialist lines . |
| 11 | The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams . |
| 12 | The capital stands on both sides of a river , and has more than eighty thousand houses . |
| 13 | The University ( formerly the City of London Polytechnic ) is in the heart of Britain 's business community and has more than 25 years experience of teaching English for Business Purposes . |
| 14 | The total of people out of work for a year rose by 75,000 in the three months to January and has more than doubled since it started increasing in October 1987 . |
| 15 | The century-old tower , one of Middlesbrough 's most famous landmarks , is crumbling and needs more than £40,000-worth of repair work . |
| 16 | The field , which is operated by Shell , was discovered in 1989 and holds more than 700 million barrels of oil and gas equivalent . |
| 17 | It is a busy waterway , with water traffic between Marienburg and Nuln more than 500 miles inland . |
| 18 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 19 | The relevant form is 20 pages long and contains more than 50 questions , and the 1 million people a year who labour to fill it in often fail to do so or are helped by relatives and friends ; 100,000 go to the citizens advice bureaux for help . |
| 20 | Anna Children proved to be a highly skilled draughtsman and contributed more than 200 illustrations to her father 's 1823 translation of Jean Lamarck 's Genera of Shells . |
| 21 | The delegates , numbering about 900 and representing more than 100,000 members , elected the union 's founder , Konstantin Trenchev , as president . |
| 22 | Mason 's party also took place in the canteen and attracted more than 60 former employees . |
| 23 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
| 24 | The 10 projects were agreed under the £98 million a year Aid and Trade Provision ( ATP ) , and cost more than £150 million to the British taxpayer . |
| 25 | The shares , at 369p , stand on a forward multiple of 8 and yield more than 7 p.c . |
| 26 | Schaffer ( 1977 ) from his studies on children also claims that even young children are capable of attaching themselves and loving more than one set of carers at the same time . |
| 27 | He said America bitterly regretted its failure to take action earlier against cocaine , which now has 5-6 million regular users and caused more than 1,000 deaths last year . |
| 28 | In a career that began at Partick Thistle and included spells with Hibernian , Celtic , Ayr United and Orlando Lions , he briefly held the record as Scotland 's most capped goalkeeper and played more than 800 games in a career spanning 18 years . |
| 29 | The new shop , which will specialise in academic library supply , will carry around 20,000 titles , and support more than 20,000 students and 2,500 academic staff . |
| 30 | In the course of these operations they killed and wounded more than 500 people , but even with these drastic measures they did not succeed in doing what they had set out to do . |