Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 2 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 3 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 4 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 5 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 6 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 9 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 10 | Once again the situation of the Black community in Britain — people who have more than contributed to the building of this country — comes into question . |
| 11 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 12 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 13 | But these limitations are more than offset by the sheer quantity of coins and hence of the designs made . |
| 14 | There will be increased printing costs and greater use of school facilities ; but these burdens will be more than offset by the extra revenue generated by parent support . |
| 15 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 16 | Small amounts of vitamins and minerals in beer are more than offset by the adverse effect of the alcohol on your nutritional state . |
| 17 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |
| 18 | You might consider , too , whether the costs saved by single-ticket issue are n't more than offset by the ( unquantifiable but still real ) costs of customer aggro. , and the costs of administering a refund , as in my case . |
| 19 | However , these were more than offset by the migration of 348,000 people to the area . |
| 20 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 21 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 22 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 23 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The few quickly-processed updates that are handled first , if direct processing is adopted , are more than counterbalanced by the shorter overall run time and thus better average service performance achieved by batching and sorting . |
| 26 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 27 | It takes more than promenading on the streets to learn one of the world 's most difficult languages , James Meek finds |
| 28 | Mr Prichard remembers his grandmother as a warm but private person who liked nothing more than to sit beside the Thames at her home in Cholsey and to tend her beloved roses . |
| 29 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 30 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |