Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income from the TV Times jumped from £1.4million to £2.1million with interest receivable more than doubling to £3.2million . |
| 2 | For England and Wales , this has also been a period of considerable growth , with the prison population more than doubling between 1950 and 1980 , from 20,400 to 50,000 . |
| 3 | Present trends could lead to consumption more than doubling by 2020 , the council says , and although energy is abundant at present , governments should take early action to secure supplies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 8 | I stripped off , laid my clothes out to dry in the sun , and cooled myself in the loch ; then , standing on a rock , I surveyed the magnificent view , sure that the effort involved in reaching the loch had been more than repaid by its utter peace and serenity . |
| 9 | A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions . |
| 10 | This was more than offset by $22 billion of additions , half from ‘ fallen angels ’ , formerly investment-grade debt downgraded to junk during the year . |
| 11 | But the director of the museum decided that the car 's importance as a cultural relic was more than offset by its lack of uniqueness — for there were still thousands of such convertibles in use . |
| 12 | Together these features offer considerable potential benefits to efficiency , flexibility , refinement and packaging , but in the past these attributes have been more than offset by traditional two-stroke failings of poor fuel consumption coupled with high emissions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He made a loss of £100 000 from his long position in shares , but this was more than offset by his profit of £118 000 from his short futures position . |
| 15 | Since exports were expanding from a much smaller base , however , the merchandise deficit continued to widen , but was more than offset by earnings from foreign exchange transactions in the banking system with the result that the overall balance of payments remained positive . |
| 16 | An enlarged trade deficit was more than offset by remittances , capital inflows and invisible earnings in 1989 creating a balance-of-payments surplus of Bel$22,700,000 . |
| 17 | The benefit of favourable exchange rates was more than offset by the adverse impact of weaker precious metal prices , particularly rhodium ( see page 21 ) . |
| 18 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 19 | His absence was more than compensated for by her mother Vanne , whom she obviously adores . |
| 20 | While they might find ‘ delinquent ’ behaviour , in its many manifestations , irritating , as the role of juvenile labour in the production process was always either peripheral or auxiliary , the ‘ delinquency ’ was more than compensated for by the advantages of using young workers who were cheap , malleable , non-unionized , easy to recruit and just as easy to dismiss . |
| 21 | It was a clockwork existence for the children , but the rapturous applause more than compensated for their tiredness at the end of the day . |
| 22 | Some tone did go , but this was more than compensated for by the Power Tool 's onboard EQ . |
| 23 | Fortunes have been mixed in Europe , with falling demand from the northern markets — particularly the UK and Germany — being more than compensated for by those of southern Europe . |
| 24 | In some cases a relatively low rateable value more than compensated for a high rate poundage ( Blair 1988a:2 ) . |
| 25 | In more remote rural areas , such as northern England , parts of the Grampians , west Wales , and Northern Ireland , net migration loss was more than compensated for by high fertility ( type 4 ) . |
| 26 | For those on the margins or in casual labour the extra mouths to feed in infancy was more than compensated for by the potentially increased sources of income and domestic help in childhood and adolescence . |
| 27 | However , the myth of the moral integrity of the Soviet state more than compensated for its metaphysical shortcomings . |
| 28 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State concluded that students were now being more than compensated for the loss of their benefit entitlement . |
| 30 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |