Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the energy at sites may interact with certain individuals to create altered states of consciousness , which enables them to see more easily the variety of legendary entities which traditionally inhabit such locations . |
| 2 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 3 | A pony will often find a ‘ fifth leg ’ when a big horse will fall flat on his nose , and although you do n't see any small ponies at the top in eventing , many riders like a bit of pony blood in their eventers ‘ to help them think more quickly ’ . |
| 4 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 5 | For the next six weeks America , Japan and Germany will between them sell more than 2m barrels a day . |
| 6 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 7 | Still , during Tolkien 's lifetime the words and the realities behind them became more and more familiar , bringing with them , one should note , entirely new ideas about the nature and limitations of human will . |
| 8 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 9 | That in effect reduced directors ' worries about bankruptcy , pushing them to borrow more . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have to be understood , however , that such a procedure would place constraints on litigants , ’ a paper from the working party warns , ‘ by obliging them to proceed more quickly than they might wish and forego the examination of some or all of the issues in a case by oral evidence . ’ |
| 11 | Such belligerent consolation made me think more , not less , about that strange woman he had coupled with on the Nile . |
| 12 | You made me think more clearly about what I wanted from life . ’ |
| 13 | We would like them to acquire more , of course , but they do not have a bad record . |
| 14 | Many nocturnal insects have a slightly different compound eye which allows them to gather more light . |
| 15 | Pain was experienced by 67 per cent of all patients , most of whom experienced more at night , suggesting that a number of apparently ‘ venous ’ ulcers may have a concurrent ischaemic component . |
| 16 | And no-one entertained more lavishly , more sumptuously , more successfully than Mrs Katherine Lundy . |
| 17 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 18 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 19 | Research is in progress to modify crop plants genetically to make them yield more than one product . |
| 20 | The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter . |
| 21 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 22 | A number of them mentioned more than one information source . |
| 23 | Since the publication of Boris Shalotsky 's The Semiology of Lawn-Mowers : inflections of the genre , nothing has more graphically encapsulated bourgeois Angst than the disputed merits of different lawn-mowers . |
| 24 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 25 | The trio scored 6/6 between them in rounds seven and eight and are carving up the rest of the field , none of whom has more than 50 per cent . |
| 26 | What is needed therefore is central government legislation requiring new owners to preserve existing access rights — and encouraging them to provide more . |
| 27 | These two important operational developments are now allowing our staff to make more productive use of their time enabling them to concentrate more effectively on serving customers and selling products . |
| 28 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 29 | Nothing looks more lamentably depressing than shelves sagging wearily in the middle , with decent books struggling to maintain a dignified upright posture . |
| 30 | Hands are always on display and nothing looks more unsightly than broken fingernails , highly coloured chipped nail varnish or chewed nails . |