Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 2 | Herpex simplex virus infection causing a mucocutaneous ulcer that persists for more than 1 month , or bronchitis , pneumonitis , or oesophagitis for any duration in a patient > 1 month of age . |
| 3 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 4 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 5 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 6 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 7 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 8 | But since the general feeling within the ICC is that cash rather than rotation counts for more , England could end up losing out . |
| 9 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 10 | I was horrified in nineteen ninety one with my first visit to see the enormous problems in housing three and a half million people were forcibly moved in the eighties in South Africa , the biggest peacetime movement of people anywhere in the world and there are now over seven million people in , just in the shacks on the roads , not even the informal housing which counts for more . |
| 11 | I have even used paper shims for more accuracy . |
| 12 | Sherwood looks for more such business on the back of BS5750 approval , fast becoming an essential requirement for government tenders . |
| 13 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 14 | ‘ It looks like more of their crowing to me . ’ |
| 15 | Now that 's what it looks like more or less now . |
| 16 | I believe the way ahead lies with more free enterprise . |
| 17 | This may take several hours during which she will lay small groups of eggs , which the male fertilises and covers with more bubbles . |
| 18 | And then that general principle of Equity , which began as the mere application of moral sense to particular cases , develops into more and more definite rules . |
| 19 | It is not too easy to find , but lies in more or less of a line with Beta and 21(4.5) . |
| 20 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 21 | West German electoral law prescribes that in principle the magnitude of a constituency should not deviate by more than 25% from the average , and that if it deviates by more than 33.3% its boundaries must be redrawn . |
| 22 | The facility to support and track complex reasoning about events and system state allows for more certainty of judgement and fault elimination than that available via current approaches . |
| 23 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 24 | " Parent help allows for more reading aloud time and liberates the teacher to do more diagnostic work . " |
| 25 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5.12 , which allows for more grid dates at the short end of the maturity spectrum relative to the long end because of the greater difficulty of fitting the yield curve at the short end . |
| 26 | A post-Budget survey shows business confidence is back to its highest level since the fourth quarter of 1989 , but another , based on the views of London-based accountants , said there was no positive signs of an upturn and warns of more redundancies in the profession . |
| 27 | Out of the galloping night one light multiplies into more . |
| 28 | ‘ You may find it results in more than you can handle . ’ |
| 29 | It must be borne in mind that more copper equates to more adhesive holding the copper foil onto the glass fibre panel . |
| 30 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |