Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 2 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 3 | In the case of the Blackwood By-Pass , I have passed your letter and the public consultation paper to our Gwent Branch in the hope that they will be able to look at the scheme in more detail . |
| 4 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 5 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 6 | There is a reversion to a concept of Biblical antiquity , that of the conjugal debt ; and , most significantly , in continuing the metamorphosing of sexual and monetary transactions , the wife presents the reader at the end with more of the same in the Shipman 's Tale , nothing new or refreshing . |
| 7 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 8 | In fact , most of the proposals for ‘ improving ’ accounting practice have involved more current valuations in the balance sheet at the expense of more subjectivity ( compared with historic cost ) in generating them . |
| 9 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 10 | Please contact Hilda Hewitt at the office for more details of what is required if you are interested . |
| 11 | ‘ We have chartered a plane and actually have a waiting list at the moment of more supporters who want to join us . |
| 12 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |