Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 2 | Most of the disabled professionals believed that they had more knowledge of disability than their colleagues . |
| 3 | We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand . |
| 4 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
| 5 | By his early twenties William decided that he wanted more engineering experience than could be got in his own area . |
| 6 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 7 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 8 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 9 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 10 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford ( Mr. Wells ) said that he wanted more democratisation of the institutions of the Community . |