Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |
| 2 | Phil Richardson , who died at King 's Norton , Birmingham on April 18 , aged 64 , was a stalwart of Moseley Ashfield for more than 25 years after the Second World War . |
| 3 | And while Britain accepted the rise of Ibn Saud in the new country of Saudi Arabia , she also kept faith with the tiny emirates along the western flank of Arabia from Kuwait to Oman , over which she had exercised protection for more than a hundred years . |
| 4 | Scientists monitoring the level of solar radiation have warned people not to sunbathe without protection for more than forty minutes . |
| 5 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | Between slaying each other by the sword , admittedly , in preparation for more energetic centuries to come … |
| 7 | In preparation for more difficult times ahead , delegates ratified the drastic " Special Period in Time of Peace " austerity programme , adopted in September 1990 , which aimed to stem corruption and achieve food self-sufficiency [ see also p. 38229 ] . |
| 8 | A great day out for all the family , the Centre for Alternative Technology is a living and working community which has been promoting and displaying sustainable technologies for more than 16 years . |
| 9 | This greatly simplifies what can be a fiddly and time-consuming process , and ( as is frequently claimed to justify many forms of automation ) frees human personnel for more interesting and productive work . |
| 10 | Travel Delay — If your arrival in the resort on the outward journey , or at your UK destination on the return journey , is delayed for any of the specified reasons for more than 8 hours , you may claim £30 plus £15 for each subsequent completed 8 hour period up to a maximum of £105 in all . |
| 11 | For example , various studies have shown that the effectiveness of certain clinical interventions is increased by specialisation and this is one reason for having regional centres of expertise for more complex operations or rarer conditions to ensure clinicians see enough patients to " keep their hand in " and efficiently ration resources . |
| 12 | Local management does however offer an opportunity for more imaginative and exciting possibilities for those schools where a real commitment to the open decision-making ‘ philosophy ’ exists . |
| 13 | The magazine 's young audience and other groups seized this opportunity for more open debate about politics in modern China . |
| 14 | It is argued that the Lords provides an important opportunity for more careful consideration of legislation that has been steamrollered through the Commons , and that it provides high-class debates . |
| 15 | Pinpointing the genes involved would , Prof Brock said , open up ‘ the opportunity for more accurate and supportive genetic counselling to would-be parents and the prospects of gene therapy in the future ’ . |
| 16 | A good chance of exciting winds and a wide range of dinghies , catamarans and windsurfers make this a paradise for more experienced sailors , while there 's a sheltered corner and a shallow sandy beach for families with younger children . |
| 17 | The Stock Markets shrugged off yesterday 's worries and staged the best rise for more than 5 weeks . |
| 18 | Contact a Family want to amass independent evidence that children are usually clean and dry at night younger than this so that they can put the case for more generous help for handicapped children . |
| 19 | Sizewell B project manager Jim McFarlane told a meeting of the local community liaison committee : ‘ We believe the case for more nuclear power is irresistible but we have to see what the Government says before deciding whether to submit the C station application . |
| 20 | Judge Richard Groves discharged the jury after it had considered the case for more than six hours . |
| 21 | ( 1980 ) use this point to argue that there is a case for more extensive charging for local government services . |
| 22 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 23 | the authority make provision for more local and central courses on the pastoral curriculum and make PSE a high INSET priority |
| 24 | Rixi Markus was the author of a dozen books , and was bridge correspondent of the Guardian for more than three decades . |
| 25 | And socialist governments had worked well in West Germany for more than 10 years . |
| 26 | The Genc family , like the one in Mölln , had lived in Germany for more than 20 years . |
| 27 | ‘ What we 're not doing is offering the client an audit on a regular basis , ’ said , ‘ although whether it will form the catalyst for more regular contact is another matter . ’ |
| 28 | Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect , and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends . |
| 29 | CAPENHURST 's sports and Social Club committee has presented a cheque for more than £330 to the Good shepherd Hospice in Chester . |
| 30 | Certainly , the best hope for more political freedom in some countries lies in opening them up through trade ; that is why America would be unwise to refuse China favourable trading terms ( see page 54 ) . |