Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 2 | Extensive canvassing showed the race issue to be , at best , marginal , more than counter-balanced by a strong pro-Taylor vote from many non-Tory constituents . |
| 3 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 4 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 5 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 6 | The benefit of favourable exchange rates was more than offset by the adverse impact of weaker precious metal prices , particularly rhodium ( see page 21 ) . |
| 7 | In some cases a relatively low rateable value more than compensated for a high rate poundage ( Blair 1988a:2 ) . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State concluded that students were now being more than compensated for the loss of their benefit entitlement . |
| 9 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 10 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 11 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 12 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 13 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 14 | At first , the expansion in student numbers was more than matched by the creation of new academic jobs . |
| 15 | However , the increased rate at which new patients are admitted has clearly been more than matched by the rate at which patients have been discharged . |
| 16 | When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques . |
| 17 | Thus , in spite of substantial emigration , the population of Lewis more than trebled during the course of the 19th century . |
| 18 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 19 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 20 | The growing weakness of local government in terms of making decisions has been more than counterbalanced by the increasing weight of government departments and the influence of civil servants . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 22 | However , this was more than counterbalanced by the amount of matériel and troops shipped to the Nationalists by Germany , Italy and Portugal ; by the British and French prohibition on the sale of arms to the Republic ; and by the fact that many of the Soviet arms purchases never reached the Republic because they were destroyed in transit by enemy action or were retained in France . |
| 23 | These can often be made cheaper per head by squeezing one person more than recommended into the household . |
| 24 | Activity at the quasi-governmental level , like the UN and OECD , has been more than paralleled by a plethora of unofficial pressure groups that monitor the activities of the TNCs , wherever they may be . |
| 25 | Despite the shortcomings , Tony Stuart 's book more than succeeds as an up-to-date review of the distribution and significance of British Pleistocene vertebrates . |
| 26 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 27 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 28 | He points to several factors supporting this conclusion : first , the patient was incapable of making a rational decision ; second , in his clinical judgment , further treatment was called for ; and third , the minor harm of proceeding without consent was more than outweighed by the major benefit , in his view , which was gained from his treatment . |
| 29 | His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west . |
| 30 | Profits at Kode International Plc more than doubled for the year to December 31 as a result of acquisition of DCM Services ( CI No 1,988 ) and substantial increase in both turnover and profits at Kam Circuits . |