Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 2 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 3 | ‘ I told Pa frankly that under the circumstances I attached more value to Michelet 's advice than to his own … . |
| 4 | Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later . |
| 5 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 6 | The Tauregs know every nook and cranny in the Hoggars , and proved excellent guides , but every ride was a bumpy one , and by the end of the day I had more need of the masseurs than the runners did ! ’ |
| 7 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 8 | I 'm glad I 'm glad he said that cos I 'm having a bit of a problem on flights for the summer we want more capacity than |
| 9 | Some experts believe that the fact we have more material possessions these days means that there is simply more to steal — after all , car theft is the most popular form of theft . |
| 10 | City accountants Peat Marwick warned : ‘ With recovery still merely a hope we fear more bankruptcies . ’ |
| 11 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 12 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 13 | Hence , when judging a person we pay more attention to initial information and discount the later information as being due to the situation ( especially where later information is incompatible with early information ) . |