Example sentences of "[ex0] [verb] be more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 2 | Thus there has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length . |
| 3 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 4 | At one time , there had been more than forty . |
| 5 | The police argued that they had reasonably apprehended that a breach of the peace might occur if there had been more than two pickets at each entrance . |
| 6 | ‘ Because you 're alive , ’ Michael snarled , ‘ which you certainly would n't be if there had been more than one of them here . ’ |
| 7 | By the time the service was launched , there had been more than 11,000 enquiries from potential subscribers , a level of interest that took the backers completely by surprise . |
| 8 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 9 | There had been more than just desire there , she had known it . |
| 10 | Only now did she recognise that there had been more than one horse . |
| 11 | US State Department sources said on Feb. 12 that there had been more than 100 such attacks against allied targets since Jan. 17 . |
| 12 | Figures on Sept. 11 from medical authorities in Sarajevo , for the five months of war in Bosnia-Hercegovina to date , estimated that there had been more than 10,000 deaths ; 2,037 people had died and 12,293 had been seriously wounded in Sarajevo . |
| 13 | I did n't tell Malpass about Stubbly 's trips to the bank getting French currency , and I bet myself there had been more than the one I 'd seen . |
| 14 | He told me last week there had been more than 100 applicants for the Section Eight grants which encourage it . |
| 15 | But surely there had been more than that ? |
| 16 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 17 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 18 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 19 | There have been more than 600 formal expressions of interest in the third wave of fundholding , to be announced next April . |
| 20 | From historical records it can be deduced that there have been more than two hundred notable tsunami in the last two thousand years ; this would allow us more than 100 000 in a million years . |
| 21 | There have been more than half a million applications for asylum in Europe this year . |
| 22 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 23 | There have been more than sixty burglaries in the three parishes so far this year . |