Example sentences of "[verb] more [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad looks more at videos . |
| 2 | She 's got Ruth , a Shirley 's Ann , to me , looks more like Judith than she looks like her mother . |
| 3 | It looks more like tea now , it looked like coffee before |
| 4 | Erm I 'd I 'd like to know more about Italy , I spoke a lot with their coach last night , we exchanged addresses and telephone numbers afterwards and he assured me that th that we might do something even pre-season next year . |
| 5 | No matter how carefully you have studied that Elvis 1968 comeback special look , emulating the King of Sex before he turned into the King of Lard , those around you are reminded more of Alvin Stardust singing ‘ My Coo-Ca-Choo ’ in PVC . |
| 6 | A later catalogue of 1755 listed more of Gray 's stock , ‘ a greater Variety of Trees , Shrubs , Plants and Flowers … than can perhaps be found in any other Garden , for Sale , not only in England , but also in any other part of Europe ’ . |
| 7 | If you would like to try more of Susan 's recipes , send a cheque for £2.50 ( inc. p+p ) made payable to Granada Television to : Allow 28 days for delivery . |
| 8 | And Mrs Hogg has more of Mr Major 's ear than almost anybody else in government . |
| 9 | Artists ' impressions show a tram that has more in common with the flat-faced , characterless light trains of the toy-like Docklands Light Railway . |
| 10 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 11 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 12 | But Britain 's view of the future of the EC has more in common with France 's than Germany 's . |
| 13 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 14 | At the other extreme , on the eastern Pyrenees , is the rare , semi-wild Alberes or Massanaise , which has more in common with the primitive Iberian cattle of Corsica , Sardinia and the Camargue . |
| 15 | The pattern has more in common with the single bed slip pattern shown in the first article , although the construction of the fabric is the same as for the one above . |
| 16 | Elements of a Sundays-style understated Englishness peek through occasionally , but Rachel has more in common with a manically abrasive Kristin Hersh than a rose-tinted Harriet Wheeler . |
| 17 | ( Thus a German worker in an advanced capitalist society has more in common with a British worker than with a German industrialist . ) |
| 18 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 19 | It also has probably the finest and most ancient native pines in Scotland , venerable trees whose gnarled , weatherbeaten habit has more in common with old oaks than with the conifers we are used to seeing . |
| 20 | However , there is another aspect of his position which has more in common with the revisionary as opposed to liberalizing tendency within the discipline . |
| 21 | Most of us accept unquestioningly , for example , that philosophy , an arts subject , has more in common with history , another arts subject , than it has with physics , a science subject . |
| 22 | Claudia Schiffer , on the other hand , appears to represent a return to innocence and vulnerability , which has more in common with the glamorous screen goddesses of the 1930s than it does with the predatory allure of Sharon Stone . |
| 23 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |
| 24 | Saatchi and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency , claim that the French business executive driving a BMW car , flying TWA , wearing Italian clothes and banking with Citibank has more in common with an American counterpart leading the same lifestyle than with a Parisian neighbour who drives a moped and works on the Metro as a cleaner . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister has discovered he has more in common with the assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky than he 'd like to imagine ! |
| 26 | The Prime Minister has discovered he has more in common with the assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky than he 'd like to imagine ! |
| 27 | Many a time , in the years since the explosion of nouvelle cuisine , I have wanted to write more of Dr de Pomiane and his unorthodox approach to classic French cookery . |
| 28 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems to me that snowdrops speak more of hopelessness than of hope . |
| 30 | The port authority says it has no immediate plans for developing more of Seal Sands . |