Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workers are chronically prone to money illusion : if prices rise in the same proportion to the rise in the money wage , leaving the real wage rate unchanged , workers none the less supply more labour . |
| 2 | In The Godfather , Don Corleone says : ‘ A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more money in a week than a man with a gun can take in a year . ’ |
| 3 | The control of working capital is an everyday activity and managers should direct more attention say to stock levels of consumable items . |
| 4 | No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable . |
| 5 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 6 | The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail . |
| 7 | Innovation : The major need is for a step change in culture — enabling more innovation in bringing new products to market ; the key message is ‘ innovate or evaporate ’ . |
| 8 | Older women report more illness and long-standing health problems and consult their GPs more frequently than men ( OPCS , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , he went out , put the ladder against the wall briefly to leave traces , threw a bit of mud through the window , and the key , and scattered more mud around the rose bed . |
| 11 | Some headway was made in expanding self-sufficiency , whether through utilising more land for agriculture , developing home economies , or encouraging local manufacturers and products . |
| 12 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 13 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 14 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 15 | And now John Cleese has added more fuel to the debate . |
| 16 | Prudent pruning produces a low yield and , therefore , a better quality wine because each bunch of grapes receives more nutrients from the soil and thus develops more flavour and structure . |
| 17 | And inside this indirection lies more indirection : image , metaphor , juxtaposition . |
| 18 | Even here , if the defendant has ( for example ) used more force than was reasonably necessary , he can ( if appropriately charged ) be convicted of the offence of simple assault . |
| 19 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 20 | ‘ Looks more AC to me , ’ said Daisy , draining the last of the vodka and orange . |
| 21 | Nutritionists have long extolled the virtues of incorporating more rice in our Western diets , and as well as being so healthy , cooking with Tilda Basmati Rice could n't be simpler . |
| 22 | With Jaguar revealing more misery in the US where September sales were down 19.1 per cent year on the year , the company needs the takeover interest to keep its share price alive . |
| 23 | He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils . |
| 24 | In the poor north-eastern part of Brazil infant mortality went up by 20 per cent between 1982 and 1984 , even though the Brazilian government had made a special effort to establish more health-care facilities during the same period . |
| 25 | It is short of funds and needs more support to spread awareness . |
| 26 | I would say that on reception is the one that probably needs more support let her down all the rest of it . |
| 27 | The exact method for effectively applying all available information needs more evaluation , but initial experimentation is encouraging . |
| 28 | A prepacked 1 mg glucagon unit is convenient to carry , unlike dextrose , which is bulky and needs more protection . |
| 29 | Barrett , who has recently scored two impressive first round stoppage victories in Italy , decided he needs more experience in the welterweight division and feels he made a mistake in challenging Manning Galloway too soon for the WBO welterweight crown last July . |
| 30 | The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas . |