Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] more [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 2 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 3 | Townsend 's data shows that a higher proportion of the non-manual groups — 19 per cent — received paid holidays of five weeks or more compared to a very negligible proportion of the manual groups — 1 per cent . |
| 4 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 5 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |
| 6 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 7 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 8 | As for drinking , we did n't do badly on the day and more followed later . |
| 9 | It will create a family doctor service more accountable to its customers and more attuned to its patients ’ needs . ’ |
| 10 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 11 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 12 | He 's less interested in spending hours scowling sulky into his bedroom mirror and more fascinated by the rigorous training Method acting provides . |
| 13 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 14 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 15 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 16 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 17 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 18 | Nevertheless , a whole generation and more succeeded in forgetting or ignoring it , in order to live with the imperial illusion — ‘ ideal ’ was the kinder word — which they seemed to need . |
| 19 | Thus the embedding of a label in a total sentence structure ( complete linguistic predication ) indicates that it is less tied to its situational context and more related to its linguistic context . |
| 20 | Thus the embodying of a label in a total sentence structure … indicates that it is less tied to its situational context and more related to its linguistic context ’ ( 1972 , p. 175 ) . |
| 21 | School governing bodies in England and Wales were reshaped in the Autumn of 1988 as a result of the 1986 ( No.2 ) Education Act , with greater parental representation and more co-opted governors ( including those from the business community ) . |