Example sentences of "[pron] makes more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 2 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 3 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 4 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 5 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
| 6 | But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 8 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 9 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 10 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |
| 11 | It makes more sense to see it as a career development move , providing an understanding and appreciation of both sides of the divide , ’ she says . |
| 12 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 13 | It makes more sense . |
| 14 | These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information . |
| 15 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
| 16 | It is the same ball game and , and as far as I , as far as I 'm concerned it makes more sense |
| 17 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 18 | In today 's economic climate of high interest rates and a virtually static housing market , it makes more sense to maintain and improve your existing home rather than move on to something bigger and better . |
| 19 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 20 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 21 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 22 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |
| 23 | I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize . |
| 24 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 25 | From the point of view of both the buyer and the seller , it makes more sense for risk to pass on delivery than upon the passing of property , and this is provided for in cl 4.3 of Precedent 1 and clause 4.1 of Precedent 2 . |
| 26 | It makes more sense me picking you up dun n it ? |
| 27 | I hope my movie is better than that : I certainly hope it makes more money . |
| 28 | So what makes more sense — buying two at £15 each and losing one , or buying one at £30 and seeing it thrive ? |
| 29 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 30 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |