Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 2 | Taylor makes the point that one of one his members believes that while the banks had been more than generous in their lending to the third world and writing off significant sums , there was little , if any support , for the small business on their own doorstep . |
| 3 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 4 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 5 | The growing weakness of local government in terms of making decisions has been more than counterbalanced by the increasing weight of government departments and the influence of civil servants . |
| 6 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 7 | And the few shillings earned was more than welcome in those hard days . |
| 8 | Together these features offer considerable potential benefits to efficiency , flexibility , refinement and packaging , but in the past these attributes have been more than offset by traditional two-stroke failings of poor fuel consumption coupled with high emissions . |
| 9 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 10 | Recent sittings have been more than a little dramatic . |