Example sentences of "[is] more [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 2 | Lutyens 's ideal of an orderly life run by efficient , invisible servants is more than realised in this immaculately appointed domain . |
| 3 | ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’ |
| 4 | This is more of a glider trait and , while it takes a little getting used to , it is more than compensated for by the aircraft 's power-off glide abilities . |
| 5 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 6 | Hence the loss of areas 3 + 5 to the UK is more than compensated for by the remittance of profits from Germany , as area 10 is greater than areas 3 + 5 . |
| 7 | The loss of earning power experienced by such as doctors , lawyers , etc. , can be recouped fairly quickly after training ( Tumin and others have estimated that no more than ten years is generally required ) , and is more than compensated by higher rewards after this time . |
| 8 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 9 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 10 | : encouraging for Festival director Nikki Milican , and an indication that her vision in bringing less well-established but visually exciting performers to Scotland is more than paying off this year . |
| 11 | The first method is appropriate if large amounts of calculation are to be performed on the input data , since the cost of conversion is more than out-weighed by the increased speed and compactness of binary arithmetic . |
| 12 | ‘ If it cheers you any , be assured that the depth of feeling you hold for me is more than returned in kind . ’ |