Example sentences of "[vb -s] more [noun sg] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thus has The intensity is related to this , but the probability distribution function contains more information than the intensity . |
| 2 | Sanitation causes more controversy than the problem of water supply , possibly because it affects people in cities . |
| 3 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 4 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 5 | If the reader has more knowledge than the writer has supposed , then he will tend to disregard the discourse that has been plotted in the act of writing and simply take from the text whatever best suits his purpose . |
| 6 | The ITF has more power than the ATP but the ITF needs the ATP . ’ |
| 7 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |
| 8 | His experiment used the conditioned suppression procedure and his critical experimental finding was that a novel stimulus added to a pre-trained excitatory CS evokes more suppression than the compound of CS plus familiar stimulus . |
| 9 | This stretch of broad water actually carries more shipping than the rest of the rivers of the Empire put together , and it is the principal route for trade in the Empire . |
| 10 | The copyist is absolutely delighted , which is a good omen in Italy , where , if the music is a success , the copyist by selling the arias sometimes makes more money than the Kapellmeister does by his composition . |