Example sentences of "more [noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 2 | ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . ) |
| 3 | The next step is to raise yet more money to renovate the other side . |
| 4 | more money to provide the same level of service . |
| 5 | Some British steel factories , using identical machinery to our foreign competitors , use up to 40% more labour to produce the equivalent amount of steel . |
| 6 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 7 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 8 | Net margins on sales may be better than those of their foreign counterparts ( see table ) , but they have to employ more capital to build the new prettily-lit , out-of-town shops that the British want . |
| 9 | He wrote of this machine in 1912 : ‘ there is no more reason to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of lower animals to any form of sensation , e.g. of brightness or colour or pleasure or curiosity , than there is to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of Mr Hammond 's machine to such sensations . ’ |
| 10 | Everyone benefits from increased job satisfaction , more time to do the real task , less friction , and a happier environment in which to work . |
| 11 | The assembled heads of government , under CARICOM 's new chair , Patrick Manning , the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago , agreed to reconvene on Oct. 28-30 to give themselves more time to study the wide-ranging recommendations of the West Indian Commission , created in November 1989 , which on June 18 had released a major 600-page report on the region 's future . |
| 12 | It is more likely that the sentence beginning with also is adding more detail to support the general conclusion that the individual concerned is right-sided and is part of the internal structure of a paragraph beginning with Generally . |
| 13 | Construction in these cases involved considerably more destruction to accommodate the defensive screen , as the evidence from Ancaster , Brough-on-Fosse and Mancetter clearly demonstrates . |