Example sentences of "more [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides won 11 matches — more than the total achieved by five of the previous six champion counties — but a revealing figure was to be found among the bonus points , where Essex harvested 11 more in the batting column . |
| 2 | So I says to Pete , right , start as we mean to go on , I refuse to pay any more than the cleanup rate . |
| 3 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 4 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 5 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 6 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 7 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
| 8 | THE SOVIET UNION is employing 900 000 scientists and engineers on research and development — 200 000 more than the United States . |
| 9 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 10 | If so , the power of critics may be no more than the listings services offered in the papers or on posters , while real power can be found in the organisation of the art market . |
| 11 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 12 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 13 | This actually is little more than the theology of Genesis chapter two . |
| 14 | ‘ But she revived old memories , and sometimes memories hurt more than the acts which created them . ’ |
| 15 | By the time it arrived , and the plans were clearly far more than the government could afford , winning the election took priority over admitting to economic reality . |
| 16 | Last year , it rocketed to £5000 million , and interest alone cost £1221 million — more than the government raked in from income tax . |
| 17 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
| 18 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 19 | He had previously made much play of the fact that the Labour party wanted to do more than the Government to ensure that women were paid properly . |
| 20 | The concession was expected to cost some NZ$440 million ( about US$240 million ) more than the government had planned for pensions . |
| 21 | The famous German raid on Coventry on the night of 14 November 1940 brought widespread devastation and civilian demoralisation ( such that a cordon had to be thrown round the city , and news from it heavily censored ) ; likewise , the bombing of the East End of London intimidated its inhabitants far more than the government dared admit at the time . |
| 22 | COUNCIL tax bills in Darlington are expected to be at least £75 more than the Government 's projections , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 23 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 24 | Far more than the man had been denied was pressed upon him . |
| 25 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 26 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 27 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 28 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 29 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 30 | This is implied in the following passage from his memoirs : ‘ We had n't given the Cubans anything more than the Americans were giving their allies in Italy and Turkey . |