Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
2 | First of course we need more information . |
3 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
4 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
5 | If they do n't have the waiver of premiums they get more units , because the more money goes into the er , whatsit . |
6 | In these other bodies of law we see more influence of foreign law than elsewhere in our legal system . |
7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that farmers are caught in a pincer movement between the National Rivers Authority , which threatens prosecution of farmers who use more fertiliser on their land to increase productivity , and the banks , which are increasing their interest rates on loans to farmers , because they are considered a bad risk ? |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
10 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
11 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |