Example sentences of "it [vb past] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 2 | She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid . |
| 3 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 4 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 5 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 6 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 7 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 8 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 9 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 10 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 11 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 12 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 13 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 14 | At a time when London 's population can hardly have exceeded 2 per cent of the entire nation , it contributed more than one-ninth of the total subsidy . |
| 15 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 16 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 17 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 18 | The programme carried a myriad of possibilities — although it promised more than it delivered on more than one occasion . |
| 19 | Nor did he know whether the fridge had been manufactured to last or to become obsolescent quickly ; nor whether it consumed more or less electricity to run than other models ; nor whether , when it was defunct , its parts could or would be recycled . |
| 20 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 21 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 22 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 23 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 24 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 25 | ‘ It seemed more than that from where I was sitting . ’ |
| 26 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 27 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 28 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |
| 29 | It achieved more than a four per cent swing in the West Midlands and won seven of its nine target seats , with only Coventry South West and Dudley West failing to fall . |
| 30 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |