Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both in Britain and in the US , cable feeds usually supply more programmes than are locally available via radio waves . |
| 2 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 3 | Other finishing processes posed more problems . |
| 4 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 5 | In datasets from different countries men consistently report more partners than women , and the British data show smaller differences than many others ( T W Smith , paper presented to American Sociological Association , Cincinnati , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 7 | Mill 's fears led him eventually to favour proposals to give the educated more votes than the mass of the people . |
| 8 | But in any case , it would make sense , given that the grey whale population has been increasing steadily overall , for whales to be exploring and utilising more areas . ’ |
| 9 | reported more teachers in the schools and 75 per cent . |
| 10 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 11 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 12 | Home Economics syllabuses , ever ambitious , are gradually now incorporating more elements of home-making , child care , nutrition ( Kenya and Nigeria ) , while needlework assumes less paramount importance . |
| 13 | A range of semantic models incorporating more features and constraints than in the basic models has been proposed in an attempt to model more closely the real world . |
| 14 | During the 1770s and 1780s the Congregationalists built more chapels in south Yorkshire than did the Methodists , but significantly they erected no new buildings between 1836 and 1851 , whereas at that time the various forms of Methodism were building chapels enthusiastically . |
| 15 | If leakage carries on increasing , we 'd have to built more reservoirs . |
| 16 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 17 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 18 | The transport secretary thinks Britain needs more roads , and therefore wants to extract more money from road-users . |
| 19 | To provide that extra information , it needs more users . |
| 20 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 21 | Four years ago , we would have said of blokes like Cathal Coughlan and Patrick Kane : pop needs more figures like them , spiky , striving , sussed . |
| 22 | ‘ Alex needs more planks . |
| 23 | It is the country which needs more graduates , it is industry which says demand outstrips supply . |
| 24 | All political parties are agreed that Britain needs more graduates , its industry needs the products of high level research and there is a continued drive to extend the frontiers of medical science . |
| 25 | To open up new routes Virgin needs more planes , and it 's come here to Airbus , in the South of France for some of them . |
| 26 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 27 | iii ) The number of steps executed during the deceleration depends on the load conditions ; a load with high inertia and low torque needs more steps to decelerate than a low inertia , high torque load . |
| 28 | The movement needs more men like him . " |
| 29 | Football needs more men like Pahdra at the masthead . |
| 30 | Handsworth needs more jobs and better housing . |