Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be clear that all of the Scottish universities offering geology doctorates concentrate more than half of their research effort on local geology , as evidenced by successful Ph D theses . |
| 2 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 3 | The position in relation to the use of medical services by the various socio-economic groups is as follows : the higher socio-economic groups make more use of most of the preventive local services ; the same , also , applies for the use of doctors ; the reverse , however , is the case in relation to the use of hospitals . |
| 4 | The band realised such novelties would help Red Rhino sell more records , so agreed to the slight compromise . |
| 5 | In Scotland , solicitors sell more properties than estate agents and it is probable , therefore , that there are more property specialists in their ranks than he imagines . |
| 6 | In brief , there is enough evidence to show that the ways in which ill health and accidents arise are such that the lower socio-economic groups suffer more than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 7 | Badges make more than pin money |
| 8 | High interest rates and falling values mean MORE repossessions . |
| 9 | As potential applications for PCR develop more emphasis is being placed upon the practical aspects of the reaction . |
| 10 | And the authorities build more prisons , like the new Twin Towers Correctional Facility , huge windowless towers of forbidding grey concrete with openings like arrow slits . |
| 11 | Grasslands provide more scope for combining conservation and good livestock husbandry . |
| 12 | Is this something new for the new budget provide more training for carers and are we going to advertise it to carers if we are ? and the other point is transport and equipment . |
| 13 | Animals communicating in the dark or through water therefore are more likely to use sound or chemical signals ; and terrestrial , diurnal animals make more use of light signals . |
| 14 | Within three years of introducing its scheme , and as schools gain more experience of delegation , each LEA must aim to reduce this limit to the lower one of 7 per cent . |
| 15 | The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy , complexity and expense . |
| 16 | Big Mac fans eat more but McDonald 's dives |
| 17 | Similarly , it has long been known that hens lay more eggs if they are kept under artificial illumination . |
| 18 | It 's a lot easier to see what went wrong with my business than my marriage : books make more sense than people . |
| 19 | The forcasters say more rain is expected tonight , but that 's just what the NRA does n't want to hear : |
| 20 | Angry traders say more police are needed in a village hit by two armed robberies in the space of a week . |
| 21 | The kids want more shape now . |
| 22 | His record pay-off cost more than this year 's dividends to all the shareholders in Murdoch 's News International company . |
| 23 | This does not directly tell us anything about the ‘ weakness ’ or ‘ strength ’ of UK manufacturing , but it is interesting to note the sectoral distribution : UK multinationals in the food , drink and tobacco industry export more capital through this route than comes in ; in mechanical engineering the inflow greatly surpasses the outflow , while in electrical engineering UK multinationals export more capital than foreign firms bring in . |
| 24 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 25 | And unless the green consumer movement constantly reiterates this point , it lays itself open to being hijacked by industrialists who simply wish to look green enough to make naive shoppers purchase more of their wares . |
| 26 | Junctions which are initially SX create more disturbance , are transformed to either XS or XX puckers and push the facing junction in the direction of smaller ε-ζ values ( between 26° and -12° ) . |
| 27 | Within such broad frameworks as these it also seems likely , however , that political sociologists will in future give more attention to the distinctive cultural traditions and historical experiences , and the specific conditions and problems , which a particular state , or group of states , confronts . |
| 28 | Beer drinkers predict more than half of the town 's 28 John Smith landlords will be out of their pubs by the end of the year . |
| 29 | Part ( b ) of the figure represents the iso-vote curves and indicates combinations of two ‘ bads ’ , namely inflation and unemployment , that yield equal votes from the electorate where the labels indicate more votes as you move towards the origin . |
| 30 | But as designers pack more and more circuits into a given space , other methods become necessary ( see next Box ) . |