Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 2 | In the same way , information about how the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) came down in favour of more information and factual knowledge in the history curriculum after months of comment and criticism led to a holding of breath as to what precisely would emerge in the shape of revised requirements . |
| 3 | On that basis , production should be increased with the hope of more jobs and increased business for ailing industries — which could help kick-start the economy . |
| 4 | There 's always to say them up will they against more buses and public transportation . |
| 5 | In spite of these problems which suggest that the data should be interpreted with more caution than other information that originated in the WHO collaborative studies , the effect of maternal age on early and intermediate fetal mortality is unmistakable . |
| 6 | The wardens , Eric and Hannah Glover , welcomed her with more restraint but equal friendliness and introduced her to a man from the Home Office who had come to visit — well , to inspect , in effect , but the mood was holiday , informal , and the man from the Home Office smiled with the rest of them . |
| 7 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 8 | Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes . |
| 9 | Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes . |
| 10 | For interferon has been dangled as a bait before investors with more money than scientific sense . |
| 11 | As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other . |
| 12 | It should be sheltered from the wind and should catch the sun and should be easily accessible to the building perhaps by a partially covered or glazed canopy : planting should be simple , bold and easily maintained , with more variable and small scale flowers and herbs being grown and planted so they can be changed seasonally . |
| 13 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 14 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 15 | Increasingly they looked to the central government for more grants and financial help . |
| 16 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 17 | But there are now stirrings for more openness and increasing awareness that secrecy is a problem , even from the Medicines Control Agency . |
| 18 | Many were also keen for more general and personal information about tax . |
| 19 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |