Example sentences of "of more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would prefer to limit production through a greater use of quotas and the withdrawal of more land from production . |
| 2 | Lower prices for West Indian sugar , according to American evidence which had been gathered , would encourage the use of more land and slaves in food production ; the result would be much better feeding of slaves than under a regime where owners took advantage of artificially high prices for cash crops to maximise profits and imported insufficient food for their labour force . |
| 3 | The arable/pastoral boundary also began to creep northwards and westwards as a result of more land being brought into arable cultivation so that counties like Nottinghamshire , Northamptonshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Hampshire recorded some of the highest increases . |
| 4 | Of more relevance here are the criticisms of those who argue that Reagan , in reality , fell far short of his declared policy purposes , or who point to the thinness of his legislative record in the remaining three years of his first term . |
| 5 | The period 1921–1951 brought great changes with the building of more council houses and the beginning of the private building along Lanark Road . |
| 6 | There would be no financial incentive to visit or the perverse effect of more night visits leading to decreasing rates of payment . |
| 7 | In the discussion of more faith the question of truth is not even on the agenda . |
| 8 | Bowe 's disturbingly casual manner out of the ring is of more concern to both his rivals and his supporters . |
| 9 | These forces have been described as ‘ Wallacian ’ ( Harper , 1977 ) , because they represent those agents of natural selection that were of more concern to Wallace than to Darwin in accounting for how organisms are as they are and behave as they do . |
| 10 | The second interpretation is of more concern . |
| 11 | Of more concern is the way Barnes has failed to silence his critics with his feet since his poor display and when asked if he will win his 69th cap next week , Taylor said simply : ‘ I want to give it some thought . ’ |
| 12 | Of more concern is the sharp rise in motoring costs , which must impact particularly severely on rural Scotland . |
| 13 | Since 1979 the balance has moved steadily against tax cutting in favour of more spending on education and the NHS . |
| 14 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 15 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 16 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 17 | There was also the prospect of more poetry although " They would have to be new poems in a new idiom " . |
| 18 | It makes a change that the burden of more want is put on the central government instead of local authorities , because too often in the past , central government has said , in many issues , oh , we think you should have that , but the responsibility for paying for it comes from the local authority . |
| 19 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 20 | In January 1989 the Civil Aviation Authority 's study of the long term options for the use of airspace and airports in the South East painted a gloomy picture of increasing airport delays and flight cancellations in the absence of more runway capacity . |
| 21 | The prime minister , Clement Attlee , and his colleagues were not anti-European , but they were opposed to any kind of integration , though the Foreign Minister , Ernest Bevin , had made it clear from the outset that he was in favour of more cooperation , especially around an Anglo-French core , and by 1947 was even indicating an interest in some kind of customs union . |
| 22 | Are they guilty of more abuse than domestic companies ? |
| 23 | This involved the embellishment of church interiors through the use of the visual arts ; the incorporation of more music into church services ; and an emphasis on the need for greater reverence and respect in worship . |
| 24 | So is there an what kind of things would you like to see in the village and round about int eh way of more music or less music or a different music ? |
| 25 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 26 | People can enjoy reading about you even if they do n't like your music and if enough of them do , it improves your chances of more coverage the next time you need it . |
| 27 | In Timisoara , there were reports of more gunfire being heard yesterday morning . |
| 28 | From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire . |
| 29 | Thailand subsequently sealed the border to prevent the influx of more Lao civilians . |
| 30 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |