Example sentences of "[noun pl] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Faith Lavender , ’ he said , giving the words more sonority than they deserved . |
| 2 | He said that reforms aimed at giving schools more choice had caused an administrative headache . |
| 3 | We want to see more dual use of school playing fields and halls and will give schools more freedom in their management . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , within the special schools more thought is being given to providing a varied educational experience to meet the needs of pupils who might share a common handicap but whose aptitude , intelligence and aspirations vary widely . |
| 5 | The two fresh players gave the East Anglians more urgency and nine minutes after their introduction Ipswich were level . |
| 6 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 7 | The HCIMA was working closely with the British Nutrition Foundation , through consultant food scientist , in a European programme to make hotels and restaurants more nutrition aware . |
| 8 | We also ran day-long workshops throughout the region to help give prospective speakers more confidence . |
| 9 | Of course it is true that construction , distribution and services are often very labour intensive sectors even in the West , but in Japan not only are these three sectors more labour intensive , so also is manufacturing industry . |
| 10 | Only several months more use of both products will determine which , if either , remains as a permanent resident . |
| 11 | At other periods more emphasis might be placed on the political role of the coin design and this allowed a greater variety of designs to be used . |
| 12 | The ability to alter dividends is said to give companies more freedom relative to the external dependence on banks who may impose unilateral changes in interest rates or loan allocation . |
| 13 | This can not be achieved by existing military contractors moving into civilian markets for which they have few skills , but by giving the market-oriented companies more access to ‘ front-line ’ technology . |
| 14 | If the electricity currently provided by nuclear power stations were to be generated by coal , the United Kingdom would emit about 55 million tonnes more carbon dioxide , increasing total emissions by about 10 per cent . |
| 15 | Local management of schools , giving parents more information , and the assessing of schools , children and teachers have all been good ideas . |
| 16 | It is significant that recent government policies have sought to give parents more power and influence in school — to elevate parenthood and , by giving parents ' views more weight , counter the claim to exclusiveness so often made by the teacher . |
| 17 | If the genetic link is disproved again this will inevitably give parents more weight when they lobby the Government . |
| 18 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |
| 19 | They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting . |
| 20 | This will seek to make the sites more cost effective and see the application of ‘ entrepreneurial ’ skills to what was seen in 1883 as a scientific data base . |
| 21 | It is significant that recent government policies have sought to give parents more power and influence in school — to elevate parenthood and , by giving parents ' views more weight , counter the claim to exclusiveness so often made by the teacher . |
| 22 | Some of the increase in capital offences was perhaps due to a more precise and less summary handling of the law , which meant that in practice fewer people were executed ; and certainly the more formal use of transportation to the colonies gave the authorities more flexibility in punishing crime . |
| 23 | We evaluated as many young boys as young girls for constipation , but twice as many boys than girls had soiling at follow up , while 1.8 times more girls than boys were still constipated or receiving laxatives for constipation at follow up . |
| 24 | Inland Revenue statistics show that the region already pays more than 10 times more income tax than , for example , the North of England . |
| 25 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 26 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 27 | Income for this group is very low , but receipt of statutory support-services is relatively great ; for example , those living alone receive five times more services than married couples . |
| 28 | And it appears approximately four times more boys than girls stammer . |
| 29 | Officials compared the judicial statistics with those of India and found that there were proportionately several times more cases in Sri Lanka . |
| 30 | But the nucleus of a pre-malignant cell takes up two to three times more dye than a normal cell , the researchers find . |