Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band realised such novelties would help Red Rhino sell more records , so agreed to the slight compromise . |
| 2 | Nucella has more species and a longer fossil history in the Pacific than in the Atlantic . |
| 3 | This is , of course , not only a plea for common sense , but also an argument in favour of estimation rather than hypothesis testing — a vaccine efficacy estimate of 77% for these data has more meaning than a of 53.1 . |
| 4 | The airline has beefed up the awards provided by its frequent-flier programme , and overhauled its aircraft to give more leg room . |
| 5 | • 55% needed more information about induction . |
| 6 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 7 | But few famous folk attracted more attention than Neil Bush , in town to launch a sports channel and to root for the Eagles . |
| 8 | And if the first batch of 700 pigs is not enough for the test , the Bonn defence ministry has earmarked a budget of £77,000 to buy more of the live targets . |
| 9 | True mastery of design and development in multimedia demands more than an incremental change in existing established skills . |
| 10 | MIPS GIVES MORE DETAILS OF FUTURE R-SERIES RISCs |
| 11 | Floor space at the factory is to increase by 75pc providing more workshop , office and storage space . |
| 12 | Floor space at the factory is to increase by 75pc providing more workshop , office and storage space . |
| 13 | The advent of the European single market has made redundant the ‘ anything to declare ? ’ channel at EC borders and , with it , the crucial information on which statistics covering more than half Britain 's trade is based . |
| 14 | Assessment time has doubled , said one Lincolnshire social worker who predicted the authority 's petrol budget would rise dramatically as staff make more visits to clients . |
| 15 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 16 | Less red meat is being consumed , but people eat more chicken . |
| 17 | I mean , it 's like like Colin and I , I mean , like we 're happy but then , no were not hundred per cent happy at all , But like , er , like some people I ca n't if you get upset , some people eat more , some people eat less , or you know , some go into recluse , some get and like Colin , |
| 18 | But it is also the case that the financial sector has encouraged people to borrow more money . |
| 19 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 20 | Mr Fowler has conceded that about 100 higher executive officer posts are threatened , but staff fear more jobs could be lost . |
| 21 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 22 | Here at home , banking for business is not an overcrowded market — although painfully short of creditworthy companies — but banking for people has more than enough suppliers with the building societies chasing the same customers . |
| 23 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 24 | People want more choice unclear |
| 25 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 26 | Reviewing other medical studies of large populations , the authors dispel another myth , that fat people consume more calories than thin people . |
| 27 | Sometimes — often , in fact — in the Western world , people consume more calories than they need to fuel the body with energy . |
| 28 | again , people consume more food . |
| 29 | And then of course you 've got your , I think people made more use of the convalescent club , which we have got . |
| 30 | Erm we 've got a convalescent club for members and I think people made more use of that and then there was a time when I remember er you see , even the death , there was a death grant . |