Example sentences of "[vb -s] it more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a sign of a tradition-conscious reappraisal of iconology in the town where it began , or has it more to do with the current emphasis of your Department ? |
| 2 | Or has it more in common with the intuitions of art ? |
| 3 | one person needs it more than another . |
| 4 | As soon as a character lays a hand on this item , the skeletal Cleric grips it more tightly . |
| 5 | The forest habitat of the Asian elephant allows it more shade . |
| 6 | The change effected by Gandhi by the use of satyāgraha , however , makes his principle more explicit and at the same time links it more closely with his concept of Truth ( Satya ) , and non-violence ( ahi sā ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It merely introduces it more quickly . |
| 9 | The patient gets better after each dose but requires it more and more frequently in order to sustain the benefit . |
| 10 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 11 | Maybe , now that Liam is a toddler , he finds it more difficult to remain patient . |
| 12 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 13 | " Aye. , She finds it more convenient , I reckon — for her visitors . |
| 14 | Robert Gate has gone up in the world , and no one deserves it more . |
| 15 | This season a benefit dinner is being arranged for the inspirational no.8 and certainly no player deserves it more . |
| 16 | Nobody deserves it more than you ! ’ |
| 17 | Faramir , however , in the next chapter feels it more physically . |
| 18 | Mind you , he plays it more than me ! |
| 19 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 20 | The parallel line docs not simply repeat what has been said , but enriches it , deepens it , transforms it by adding fresh nuances and bringing in new elements , renders it more concrete and vivid and telling . |
| 21 | The presence of feldspar grains within a sandstone renders it more susceptible to change during diagenesis as alteration , replacement or dissolution of these grains may take place . |
| 22 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 23 | This gives it more relevance in the eyes of head teachers . |
| 24 | The Holst work is played in an unusually emphatic manner , which in the end gives it more stature than it sometimes achieves in performance ( the composer himself recorded this work with rather similar regard to rhythm and accents , but used faster tempos ) . |
| 25 | " Leading from start to finish gives it more credibility . |
| 26 | Hereford beef is more fatty which gives it more flavour , and that 's what the customer wants . |
| 27 | His wife Marjorie puts it more graphically : ‘ It 's not ‘ Come on , let's get upstairs ’ any more . |
| 28 | That , you know , th that puts it more in the context , does n't it . |
| 29 | ECT increases the central nervous system 's turnover of norepinephrine , and does it more quickly with fewer side-effects than the tricyclic drugs . |
| 30 | No other episode in the history of the Church of England , a recent historian has written , does it more credit . |