Example sentences of "make more [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Not content to rest his case on the prudence with which the Holy Spirit had left astronomy out of the Scriptures , he proceeded to show that the miracle of Joshua 's long day made more sense if the text was read from a Copernican standpoint . |
2 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
3 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
4 | Soon we were making more money than the car company was losing . |
5 | A day or two after the baby 's birth , with Mrs Longhill lying-in and the nurse making more work than the rest of the household put together , Florrie left . |
6 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
7 | I could see Myrtle Augee , Mary Berkeley and Tessa Sanderson , all waving and shouting , seeming to make more noise than the rest of the stadium . |
8 | 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 . |