Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , however , good-quality large-scale canvases rarely fetch more than $4 million ; and there have been problems with forgeries . |
| 2 | My Department already spends more than £4 million annually on monitoring air quality , particularly in London , and making the information available to the general public and the media . |
| 3 | Although they too nominally subscribed to Calvinist theology , it seems unlikely that the doctrine of predestination ever made more than the most superficial inroads into their collective consciousness . |
| 4 | THE Salvation Army began a High Court action yesterday to recover more than £6 million it believes was stolen from its accounts in a huge fraud . |
| 5 | The club now has more than 1,000 members . |
| 6 | British homes now contain more than 20 million cassette recorders . |
| 7 | Swindon Cable already claims more than 30 per cent of the local television audience . |
| 8 | Swindon Cable already claims more than 30 per cent of the local television audience . |
| 9 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 10 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 11 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 12 | The private sector alone runs more than a thousand , dwarfing the local authority 's supply of a few dozen . |
| 13 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 14 | Coal miners usually earned more than farm or common labourers . |
| 15 | The , the point as says , one has to bear in mind is that , okay , in general fostering are the successful parents , but the parents probably have more than one offspring . |
| 16 | Accordingly investment in this sector probably led more than it followed investment in agriculture or manufacturing . |
| 17 | Jonsson , following a study of delinquent boys in relation to marital breakdown and subsequent contact between children and parents , concluded that the " psychological reconstruction phase following divorce probably meant more than the acute conflict during the divorce proceeding " . |
| 18 | For example d-Block elements often form more than one stable cation . |
| 19 | If one girl now has more than 24 beads , she has won a hole for each four beads on the other player 's side . |
| 20 | The Queen reportedly earns more than £6 million a year from her £6.5 billion assets . |
| 21 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |
| 22 | Wordsworth never wrote more than one book of The Recluse , which was to have been ‘ the great philosophical poem ’ . |
| 23 | Her Privy Council never had more than nineteen members and towards the end of the reign had only eleven . |
| 24 | In the nineteenth century , as the pace of domestic and foreign commerce quickened , indirect taxes gradually yielded more than the poll-tax . |
| 25 | The phenomenon remains extremely rare today in Arnhem Land and the Central Desert , where groups still live more or less traditional lifestyles . |
| 26 | IB ) , but even on these surfaces grains undergoing saltation rarely reach more than 2 m ( 6 ft ) above the surface . |
| 27 | Located in a very attractive part of Bray , the Studio and control room together cover more than 400 sq . |
| 28 | America 's airlines alone have more than $130 billion-worth of aircraft on order . |
| 29 | The countries of the European Community alone spend more than $1 billion helping Africans build roads , plant saplings and fill bellies . |
| 30 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |