Example sentences of "more [noun] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They urged him to back their campaign for more funding and for the idea of performance related pay to be abandoned . |
| 2 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
| 3 | The CNAA has also found itself drawn into the dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and its local authority , Kirklees Metropolitan Council , where , in 1980 , it felt itself obliged to write to both parties : to the council stressing the need to provide more funds and to the polytechnic strongly advising it temporarily to drop its intention of introducing new courses . |
| 4 | Down some more steps and into a room . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 6 | He was told of Dr Tariq 's passage throughout the offices and laboratories , his attempt to steady the morale of the Germans , the Austrians and of two more Italians and of a Swede . |
| 7 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 8 | In the period 1990-92 there were more repossessions than in the whole of the 1980s . |
| 9 | At all other values for the real wage , output is constrained either by the unwillingness of firms to produce more output or by the unwillingness of households to provide more labour services but not by both at the same time . |
| 10 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 11 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
| 12 | Suppliers admit they get more stability than in the past , but some complain of ruthless use of retail muscle . |
| 13 | But there is undoubtedly a need for council expenditure in this city and elsewhere in this particularly recommendation we clearly have to realise more capital whether from the judiciousness of our asset or of course by . |
| 14 | Now Darlington detectives are hoping the crimebusting programme will bring forward more clues as to the man 's identity . |
| 15 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
| 16 | Since privatisation ( and no doubt helped by the £200 million of public investment ) the firm has expanded substantially and currently has about 1,000 more employees than at the beginning of 1990 . |