Example sentences of "more than [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a recent survey , students buy an average of 11.33 books a year for their courses — three each of set texts and recommended books , and five further academic titles , When one considers that British academic books in 1982 cost an average of £21.76 for science and technology titles , it would seem that , contrary to popular belief , students are spending more than their grant allocation . |
| 2 | The likely returns from their use must be estimated as more than their cost . |
| 3 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |
| 4 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 5 | The spectators got more than their money 's worth on his first appearance , though little of his lecture . |
| 6 | The so-called science of narratology tells us that all we ever do is tell stories about ourselves whose truth is no more than their plausibility and consistency with each other . |
| 7 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 8 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 9 | Thus , though the placid British jurassic sediments have received vastly more than their fare shair of study , it is curious that some of their more spectacular features have been relatively neglected . |
| 10 | There was little difference apparent between more- and less-frequent walkers , but it was noticeable that particular sub-groups stood out as experiencing more than their share of problems . |
| 11 | They 've had more than their share . |
| 12 | When it is realized that of the fifteen largest corporations in the world in 1978 , three were car manufacturers , eight were oil companies , and one was in chemicals , it can be appreciated that the largest corporations within the most concentrated sections of international capital formation are committing more than their share of law violations . |
| 13 | It is not a usual part of anti-racist strategies to create black only classes within ordinary schools to prevent unfair competition with white pupils who get more than their share of teacher attention . |
| 14 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 15 | People had begun to feel less ashamed about being greedy and of wanting more than their share of fairness . |
| 16 | The benefits principle argues that people who receive more than their share of public spending should pay more than their share of tax revenues . |
| 17 | The benefits principle argues that people who receive more than their share of public spending should pay more than their share of tax revenues . |
| 18 | They have more dud loans and narrower profit margins than before — and certainly more than their German , French or even Japanese rivals . |
| 19 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 20 | It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 21 | ( b ) the attractions of the target to the offeror ( eg asset value , economies of scale , future performance , pension scene surplus etc ) may be such that , in its eyes , the target 's shares are worth more than their market price ; |
| 22 | The majority of higher honours are dished out to people who have done nothing more than their job , for which they are already well rewarded . |
| 23 | A revaluation of the brewer 's 1,600 pubs showed that they are now worth £255million more than their book value . |
| 24 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 25 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 26 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Such people , ’ I continue aloud , ‘ who are rendered suspect of nothing more than their swarthiness , are repulsive in their manifestation of a sinister attraction . |
| 28 | A woman without wealth will have few suitors , but a woman who can produce a large dowry will have more than her share of acquisitive Strephons writing sonnets . |
| 29 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 30 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |