Example sentences of "[pron] [is] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 2 | Les Noces de Pierette , which is more than 6ft wide , dates from 1905 . |
| 3 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 4 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 5 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 6 | The number of therapists who belong to professional bodies in the UK is increasing by 12 per cent per year , which is more than five times the rate of increase of medical doctors . |
| 7 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 8 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 9 | Hair which is more than 50% grey needs permanent colour , but it does n't have to look unnatural : some stylists will combine lowlights with permanent tint to give a more textured look , rather than a block colour . |
| 10 | They will not offer the clarity of full-scale HDTV , which is more than twice that of conventional sets , but they will outperform them — and confuse the would-be consumer , who has little idea what HDTV is . |
| 11 | Jupiter 's mass is 317.893 M E , which is more than 2½ times the mass of all the other planets put together . |
| 12 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 13 | The Department of Education has already been severely criticised by both the Audit Office and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee over the overall system which is more than £4,5m over the original estimated budget . |
| 14 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 15 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 16 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |
| 17 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |
| 18 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 19 | This involves the acquisition of goal-oriented behaviour which is more or less formulaic in character and whose capacity for accommodation to novelty is , therefore , very limited . |
| 20 | Kenny does the same , and he relates animal wants to Aristotle 's notion of epithumia , or sensual desire : ‘ It is felt desire , and it is desire for something now , desire which is more or less continuously felt until it is satisfied ( like hunger , sleepiness , thirst ) ’ ( 1975 : 49 ) . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 22 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 23 | However , since managers can also offer a coupon for the bonds — and hence a yield — which is more or less competitive by taking a higher risk , the overall price must also contain elements of the deviation of the yield from that which would be obtained from other competing intermediaries . |
| 24 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 25 | ‘ If we can keep them out long enough , maybe the crowd will turn against them a bit and frustration will set in ’ — which is more or less what happened . |
| 26 | Which is more or less where we came in ! |
| 27 | Twenty , she 's more than she 's more than twenty years younger than me . |
| 28 | Twenty , she 's more than she 's more than twenty years younger than me . |
| 29 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 30 | ‘ She 's more or less packed . ’ |