Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more [noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has included more discussion and comment than Westminster did in 1989–90 , with only 65% of its items using televised actuality and the average duration of each piece of actuality being only three minutes ( 69% of each item ) . |
| 2 | ROSSLYN PARK 'S captain , Richard Moon , who this season has seen more needle and thread than the Bayeux tapestry , was stitched up again last Saturday after his side were relegated following their defeat by Bath . |
| 3 | The past month has seen more violence and death than any of the student groups had anticipated . |
| 4 | Pollution laws : Britain has infringed more air and water pollution directives than any other country in the EC ; according to the advocate general of the European Court of Justice , it exceeds EC nitrate standards in drinking water ; and faces prosecution for 138 substandard beaches . |
| 5 | In recent years teaching in schools has become more project and assignment oriented with less emphasis on teaching and more emphasis on independent learning in the curriculum . |
| 6 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 7 | has gone more wolf than dog in the interim … |
| 8 | However , the costs of production will increase as farmers are made to invest more time and money in each animal , and these costs must be met by the consumer . |
| 9 | The normal childhood that other people wished on him struck him as mostly plaguing and tawdry ; his own lost norm , a life spent in the company of ribald sopranos and tap-dancers and hard-pressed comedians in fear of the sack , seemed to have more decency and purpose . |
| 10 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 11 | Though you 're going to need more time and space to yourself though . |
| 12 | ‘ I really do want to do more TV and film work . |
| 13 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 14 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |
| 15 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 16 | But in the latter establishment customers would have demanded more space and comfort . |
| 17 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 18 | Financial or other support given to sufferers from addictive disease by well-meaning family or friends will therefore simply tend to enable more drug or alcohol consumption . |
| 19 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 20 | Of course , while the wider range of lenders and mortgage products mean that borrowers can end up with a better deal than in the past , it also means spending more time and effort choosing the best mortgage for your particular circumstances . |
| 21 | Again Fitzosbert smiled though Athelstan had seen more humour and warmth on the silver plate of a coffin lid . |
| 22 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 23 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 24 | And farmers had to grow more cereal and vegetable crops . |
| 25 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 26 | The defended sites in Britain have to be studied in detail against this development and I can only hope that this short contribution may help to inspire more thought and action along these lines of research . |
| 27 | And the DK 's got more plastigraft than flesh . |
| 28 | If one treats the sensation-mongers who stand outside a prison during an execution with the contempt they deserve , it is , I think , fair to say that the conviction and execution of Joyce have caused more disquiet than satisfaction in the minds of the public . |
| 29 | First , we need to have more control and accountability for our clinical practice ; second we need to further develop our analytical skills to make us more confident and effective members of the multidisciplinary team , and third , by appreciating the managerial themes in our work we should be better equipped to establish constructive dialogues with our managers who may now be non-nurses . |