Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] more [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 2 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 3 | Stand up for your rights , Aries , but do n't dig your toes in so much that you create more problems for yourself . |
| 4 | It 's certainly the case that we need more publicity for the sectional structure and you have a broadsheet which is being circulated , which starts the process of publicizing the structure of the union , how the regional and industrial structure works together . |
| 5 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 6 | In other words to see that they get more benefit for the effort that they put into it . |
| 7 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |
| 8 | This means that they require more notice of events and happenings of interest than the daily papers . |
| 9 | It was characteristic of many teaching methods used with children experiencing learning difficulties during the 1970s and 1980s that they entailed more control by the teacher over children 's learning than was typical in mainstream classrooms ( Wood and Shears 1986 ) . |
| 10 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 11 | Most of the disabled professionals believed that they had more knowledge of disability than their colleagues . |
| 12 | For exporters who price their exports in foreign currency , a fall in the exchange rate will mean that they earn more pounds per unit sold . |
| 13 | The real trouble with these provisions is that they gather more power into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 15 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My main complaint concerning students of modern sediments is that they pay more attention to the question of how sediments are deposited than to the question as to whether or not they stay there . |
| 18 | Delegates agreed afterwards that they found more ground for agreement than conflict and appreciated the frank and open discussions . |
| 19 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 20 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 21 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |
| 22 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
| 23 | The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas . |
| 24 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |
| 25 | The local ice-cream shop is run by a Norwich man who informed all who would listen that he sold more types of ice-cream than Sainsbury 's . |
| 26 | Their data showed that the larger the coalition , the greater was the fitness of each male within it despite the fact that he had more companions with whom he had to share paternity . |
| 27 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 28 | ‘ The filly was desperate , even falling over walking on to the gallops , ’ Pipe explained , adding that he puts more work into training In-Keeping than three normal horses . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford ( Mr. Wells ) said that he wanted more democratisation of the institutions of the Community . |