Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 2 | He was supposed to have asked politely for more heat up on their level . |
| 3 | The rise to prominence of the Dzhungar state in what is now Chinese territory , and the submission to it of tribes in the Altai and further west in present day Kazakhstan , were causing problems ( see below for more detail on the Teleuts ) . |
| 4 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 5 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 6 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 7 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 8 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 9 | Peter White , Managing Director of British Airways Cargo , comments : ‘ Air cargo is increasingly proving its worth as the premier mode of distribution , especially as more companies practice ‘ Just-In-Time ’ inventory controls . |
| 10 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 11 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 12 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 13 | A queue at the Mercedes-Benz double decker bus waits patiently for more freebies as the Trabants double park with immunity . |
| 14 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 15 | Harry Moyle 's very detailed examination of Hampden , aided by his own personal experience in the aircraft , is perhaps of more interest to the aircraft than the lifeboat enthusiast but is included here for two very good reasons . |
| 16 | The parties ' intentions are perhaps of more importance than individuals ' commitments . |
| 17 | The largest of all Blackwells Art & Poster Shop 's calendar suppliers is Pomegranate , which offers a magnificent range of subject matter — not just Monet , Hopper , Escher , Klimt and Impressionists , but calendars of the work of Piranesi , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , William Blake , Childe Hassam , Maxfield Parrish and Redoute , and perhaps of more interest to the general bookshop , a range of other subjects that includes astronomy with a calendar of The Maps of the Heavens , feminist history in Women Who Dared , Classic Jazz and Classic Blues Musicians , Shakespeare 's World , archaeology with Sacred Stone Sites , The History of Medicine and an array of natural history subjects , including The Mountain Gorilla , Harp Seal Pups , Penguins , Cats , Birds , Endangered Species , Cows and the bestseller of the last two years Pigs . |
| 18 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 19 | Subsequent development of superconducting microwave cavities may have changed the situation , but perhaps of more interest is the very recent suggestion { 36 } to operate lasers in the intermediate regime the far infrared . |
| 20 | I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective . |
| 21 | Anything over two constitutes a group , but sharing and transference are facilitated better with more people . |
| 22 | The details of the interaction of GH5 binding to the nucleosome will become clear only with more data . |
| 23 | Through her tears she repeated her previous words , only with more anguish and entreaty . |
| 24 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps with more planning and a little more planning among the living these businesses would last longer . ’ |
| 26 | The magisterial pronouncement of Sir George Macdonald on the Antonine Wall has now been overthrown by the brilliant study of the samian by Brian Hartley ( 1972 ) , and the work at Carpow and other Severan sites will help to stabilize the dating of the pottery of this period , so with more revisions and adjustments , we may eventually have a framework which will endure , but only possible since all the groundwork had been so carefully prepared . |
| 27 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 28 | More flying experience , together with more situations training , is needed . |
| 29 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 30 | Liberals favour the protection of human rights together with more participation and decentralization in government . |