Example sentences of "more [subord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This number more than met the 1,119 houses that were needed in 1951 to eradicate undesirable overcrowding and subtenancy . |
| 2 | Or try Al Pacino being seduced against his better judgment by Ellen Barkin , whose weird appearance more than matched the suspect character she played in Sea of Love . |
| 3 | Heading for our connection , a brief glimpse of the sleek city more than justified the time we intend to spend there next week . |
| 4 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 5 | , for the benefit of future performance , we more than replaced the year 's production , adding more than 600 million barrels of oil equivalent to our reserves . |
| 6 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 7 | She enjoyed living in London , she more than enjoyed the work she did , and she wanted to stay . |
| 8 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |
| 9 | Executive Trevor East said : ‘ When you add fees for overseas television rights , plus their gates and advertising sponsorship , you would have to think they could have more than doubled the figure we offered . |
| 10 | In particular , during the discrimination trials , the children ‘ dutifully ’ followed the example set by the model , even when she took an indirect route to the boxes , which more than doubled the distance to be travelled and ‘ was clearly incompatible with the subjects ’ eagerness to get to the containers ' . |
| 11 | As The Sunday Times pointed out , there were staff who more than welcomed the CNAA 's judgments on the long-standing problems of the Polytechnic . |
| 12 | Three times round the train more than equalled the Derby . |