Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] more [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 2 | They say that more of the therapy group were married , and married people with cancer are known to survive longer ; that help with pain control meant they were more likely to remain active and continue with exercise ; and that they tended to eat better . |
| 3 | I say that more in hope than expectation , but one never knows . |
| 4 | Her main task was to organise courses in communication skills , but she soon found that more of her job was about creating the climate of media awareness in the Catholic Church . |
| 5 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 6 | The data show a wide range of strategies overall , and we would trust that more of these could enter the management vocabulary of more schools . |
| 7 | Secondly , we 've just heard that more of you than ever before are buying Hairflair so a big THANK YOU to you all ! |
| 8 | Women in middle-class occupations have more qualifications to acquire and more of a career structure to protect than women in manual or routine jobs . |
| 9 | If we accept that more of the caring is done by women the second problematic issue for family care of elderly people is the number of women who expect to be employed outside the home . |
| 10 | Generally , we tend to assume that more of other people 's behaviour is internally controlled and more of our own is externally controlled . |
| 11 | The guns could be sold and more of the furniture . |
| 12 | It would superficially seem reasonable to accept 7.45 , but it should be noted that more of the highest third of pupils placed " pm " after the clock time than did pupils in other bands . |
| 13 | If medical education is to respond to modern developments in health care , we believe that more of this sort of teaching will be required . |
| 14 | The CBI also found that more of the region 's businesses expected new orders to increase rather than to decrease . |
| 15 | It is vain to think that more of the load will be shouldered by voluntary effort . |
| 16 | There are those who have n't been found and they are being chased and more of them will be chased |
| 17 | As explained above fifteen new ‘ open farm ’ prisons have been constructed and more of these are essential if the Sandinista prison guide-lines are to be fully put into action . |
| 18 | David Mann , managing director of Logica , wrote in an editorial that the BCS ‘ is regarded as more of an enthusiast 's club than a professional institution and is considered to have an academic bias with insufficient relevance to the problems of implementing real-life industrial and commercial systems . ’ |
| 19 | Generally , we tend to assume that more of other people 's behaviour is internally controlled and more of our own is externally controlled . |