Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principality has the highest proportion of homes built more than 100 years ago . |
| 2 | Over the years his hair had thinned , his figure grown more corpulent , his face redder and shinier . |
| 3 | Industrial nations needed more primary materials as their consumption rose and they could provide the capital for investment in poorer countries . |
| 4 | The defendant submitted , consistently with the conduct of the defence at the trial , that the trial judge ought not to have excluded his evidence , or any other admissible evidence which he could have elicited by cross-examination , tending to show that Paulette was addicted to drugs in the form of cocaine and ganja cigarettes , the defendant 's object being to show that Paulette 's conduct just before the shooting rendered more credible the now irrelevant defence of provocation and the defence of accident . |
| 5 | The lack of even basic knowledge is probably a fault encountered more when dealing with a consultancy than with in-house PROs . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , the median serum IGF-I concentration increased more in the steroid treated group despite better growth in the group treated with the elemental diet . |
| 7 | Devising and enacting appropriate remedies fitted more easily into the Labour Party 's outlook than into that of the Conservatives and they produced few very positive ideas for reform or change . |
| 8 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 9 | Leon Kennedy 's lips restrained more than a smile . |
| 10 | The Transport Department planted more broadleaf trees than the Forestry Commission , he claimed . |
| 11 | Even the dirty-phonecall vocals have been put on hold , with Shaun 's monochrome monotone given more emotional support than usual by Rowetta . |
| 12 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 13 | Consequently the attitude of students to legal study is predetermined by their exposure to a substantive body of law designed more to develop their memories than to expand their minds . |
| 14 | In addition , the police were well prepared , stimulated largely by implementing a plan designed more to cope with an emergency at the nearby Toronto International Airport than for the event in question . |
| 15 | It was an echo of Goldsmith 's Deserted Village written more than fifty years earlier . |
| 16 | ago , the Outer Hebrides Thrust was reactivated , and the movements produced more crushing along the thrust plane , with the production of mylonites , which are pale coloured , very fine grained , schist-like bands of crush material occurring at irregular intervals along the line of the thrust . |
| 17 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 18 | Taking the Bristol sound in a new direction are Reborn , a dance act rooted more firmly in the On-U sound effect than Smith & Mighty . |
| 19 | Besides the varying effects caused by such economic factors as supply and demand , the basic soil conditions of particular areas provided more fundamental reasons for a range of types of farming . |
| 20 | However , he did find that injured victims provided less complete reports than uninjured ones and that victims of robberies provided more complete reports than the victims of rape or assault . |
| 21 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |
| 22 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 23 | On average the ASWs identified more social problems for women ( 2.12 per case ) than men ( 1.6 per case ) . |
| 24 | But the new act created more political problems than it solved . |
| 25 | Even after paying £6,000 over 10 years , you might still make a loss — though Equitable paid £12,877 , and several other companies paid more than £9,000 . |
| 26 | String instruments always raised difficulties , because they had less power than the wind section , and their operators needed more ‘ elbow-room ’ . |
| 27 | However , little by little , as Aspreys sold more and more of his artefacts , so Ernest bought up more and more land along the cliff and through the village . |
| 28 | Finally , as local authorities needed more and more Exchequer money to deal with urban problems of environmental decline and a welter of economic and social problems , new tensions in central-local relations unfolded in the 1980s . |
| 29 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 30 | It seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |