Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 2 | And erm well this became more or less the policy of the union . |
| 3 | Within this cohort 22 consumed more than 20 units of alcohol a week . |
| 4 | Not all the respondents in our survey gave reasons for their choice and some offered more than one . |
| 5 | The only hope of saving prestige lay in victory , but this proved more and more elusive in spite of the sending of reinforcements . |
| 6 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | These were not great landowners , and less than half had more than four manors , even fewer parks around their houses . |
| 8 | Some people , for instance , can not sleep if there is traffic noise at night ; others hardly notice it and may even welcome it as a ‘ sign of life ’ ( I have heard this said more than once ! ) |
| 9 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 10 | This jumped more than £70m to £501m for the year to September but the recession has torn a gaping hole in the value of its hotels , restaurants and pubs . |
| 11 | But Martin 's two posts ( oboe and musette ) and Jacques 's ( flute and oboe ) , in addition to the instruments they owned , suggest that each played more than one of the above named instruments during an opera performance ( a common practice today for theatre orchestra musicians ) , and were in addition skilled players of stringed instruments . |
| 12 | In response to the rise in violence the United Kingdom government on Feb. 10 ordered more than 500 extra troops to the province . |
| 13 | The FT-SE 100 soared more than 25 points in early dealings taking the Index smoothly through 2,700 to 2713.4 , only 24 points below its record high . |
| 14 | The narrowest run margin was 68 runs , and no first-class side batting second lost more than two wickets . |
| 15 | Of those patients who drank alcohol , half of the severe oesophagitis group drank more than 40 units/week and six drank more than 100 units/week ( mean 50.2 , median 40 , range 1->100 units/week ) . |
| 16 | These became more and more normal in Western and Central Europe . |
| 17 | The top nine anglers had a total of 205 lb 5 oz of chub and the top three returned more than 35 lb . |
| 18 | Forty six patients had a single event , 59 had two-five , 21 had six-10 , and 31 had more than 10 events before referral . |
| 19 | With these ‘ Heidelberg masters ’ , not unworthy disciples of Senfl , the secular Tenorlied became more and more nearly a miniature motet . |
| 20 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 22 | A total of 1.727 million birds was recorded , with almost 1 million of these at six major sites : the Wash , Ribble , Dee , Morecambe Bay , Humber and Thames , which each recorded more than 100,000 each . |
| 23 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 24 | A raid on the Knightsbridge Safety Deposit Centre , London , in July 1987 netted more than £30 million and in November 1983 gold bullion worth £26 million was taken in the Brink's-Mat robbery at Heathrow . |
| 25 | Only 255 investors put in more than £50,000 , while 70 invested more than £100,000 . |
| 26 | The tabletop sale held in the village hall on February 15 raised more than £200 for the hall . |
| 27 | On Laslett 's estimate , only one household in twenty contained more than two generations . |
| 28 | By 1987 the number accepted as homeless had more than doubled to 118,000 . |
| 29 | I never had one before that lasted more than nine months . ’ |
| 30 | As a growing proportion of an ageing population lived on into their eighties or even nineties , the disparity between their life chances and those of the able-bodied employed became more and more apparent . |