Example sentences of "by more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's followed by more noise , sharp and ugly , as they drag him into the kitchen . |
| 2 | Was this erm differences in quality to be made up by more land ? |
| 3 | Anything can happen in the next half hour — specifically , fabbo '60s puppet drama STINGRAY is happening , followed by more MAN FROM UNCLE stuff . |
| 4 | What harm is there in trying to achieve better value for money and more choice for the consumer by more competition — always giving an assurance , which I repeat today , that we will ensure that the uniform tariff structure remains in being even in rural areas ? |
| 5 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 6 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 7 | Later , there is a picnic followed by more beach games , perhaps while the adults snooze in the sun . |
| 8 | Agriculture could be affected by genetic engineering through the adoption of either " lower input " systems , or by more cost effective intensive systems . |
| 9 | This is done not by more pruning , but by making life distinctly awkward . |
| 10 | There was a moment 's silence ; then Fand clasped her hands to her face , as if seized by more dismay than she could bear . |
| 11 | Every year another Finance Act adds to the volume of legislation — and it is inevitably accompanied by more case law , statements of practice , published concessions and other , more subtle , unpublished changes in view or practice . |
| 12 | Close by more executive homes are being built . |
| 13 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 14 | This was followed by more lemonade . |
| 15 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 16 | Was the next year to be filled by more unemployment and more chemotherapy ? |
| 17 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 18 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 19 | The sequence of frost followed by thaw followed by more frost produces a particularly damaging situation for goldcrests . |