Example sentences of "more [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Mr Fairfax , as you can see , we 've already made more progress than you managed on your own . ’ |
| 2 | This is an area where we can make much more progress and I 'm delighted to see the advances that have already taken place . |
| 3 | The Ramblers ' Association would get more progress if they worked with us all the time . |
| 4 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 5 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
| 6 | They stress that the only farmers who can benefit from the immediate purchase of ewe premium rights are those who have submitted a 1993 claim for more sheep than they have quota and are buying or leasing retrospectively . |
| 7 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 8 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 10 | The timber work presents more difficulty as we are even more uncertain about the methods and tools available . |
| 11 | The main reason is population growth which is causing the people to clear more woodland so they can cultivate the land . |
| 12 | Erm more calls than we could cope with in the end for and er see what happens to it and keep in touch write to your councillors and let them know what you think or write to me and I 'll pass the letters on . |
| 13 | The man threw more sticks and it jumped again , ecstatic , diving and swimming , in and out . |
| 14 | Besides the fittings which required more patience than she possessed ( ’ My worst fault is impatience . |
| 15 | Instead she said quietly , and with more patience than she felt , ‘ Victoria , your father will not only be annoyed if you do n't go to the party tonight , he 'll also be extremely upset . |
| 16 | I 've got more patience than I used to have , and now I 've got responsibilities with the kids . |
| 17 | I think I 'll have more patience when I 'm a father . ' ’ |
| 18 | Of course , as time went by , he missed more birds than he killed . |
| 19 | A report just published shows there are now forty per cent more birds than there were ten years ago . |
| 20 | And we shall see more birds if we visit again in winter when ‘ The field fare chatters in the whistling thorn … ’ , |
| 21 | Then , equally important , George Bush must sell that deal to Congress with far more enthusiasm than his officials have lately shown for the multilateral approach to trade reform . |
| 22 | Preston took the tube to Polly 's , an experience which the twins anticipated with rather more enthusiasm than he . |
| 23 | Government figures released today show that like Wymott at the time of the riot , nearly a third of prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded , several housing seventy percent more prisoners than they were designed for . |
| 24 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 25 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 26 | But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending . |
| 27 | I 've had a few blokes , a few more blokes than you . |
| 28 | Cara needed no more prompting and her eyes had begun to shine again with excitement . |
| 29 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 30 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |