Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither view comes out unscathed , and the conditions under which each holds more water is explored in chapter 16 . |
| 2 | It will be equally interesting to see more work done extending his methods to the texts used in schools . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like to follow the European model where the governments seem to be prepared to invest more money in improving the service , ’ he added . |
| 4 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 5 | This offers more options and would be worth considering if you are going to do a lot of editing . |
| 6 | There is a suggestion that the growth-controlling auxin gravitates to the bottom of the bough and this produces more wood on the compression face , but to me , this is only a partial answer . |
| 7 | We recognise that some homes are more expensive than others , and that some provide more facilities than others ; we must ensure , however , that no one falls through the net because basic income support is not available . |
| 8 | ‘ This has more hip to it . |
| 9 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 10 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 11 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 12 | It 'll be easier to work , it 's always easier to work more land than it is just a small plot of land . |
| 13 | This adds more ammunition . |
| 14 | References 7 , 8 , 10 and 12 provide more information on human factors . |
| 15 | Crilly was a lynch-pin of our defence that season — only Bob Greener played more games than Tom . |
| 16 | This caused more hilarity and we ended in hysterical fits . |
| 17 | This provoked more disapproval . |
| 18 | This allows more scope for using softer materials and complicated designs but it also means that the outer fabric can get wet , though you stay dry inside . |
| 19 | This allows more space for the instruments in the navigation area . |
| 20 | This allows more time for attended cases , since non-attended cases tend to be dealt with very speedily . |
| 21 | Even though workers would be willing to offer their labour services at a lower real wage rate , and even though employers would be willing to hire more workers at a lower real wage rate , neither party to the bargaining process is capable of exerting downward pressure on this all important relative price . |
| 22 | They will therefore be willing to hire more labour ( move down their demand curve ) . |
| 23 | This shows more inhumanity because he is willing to send another man to his death for no other reason that he is black and that he does not like him . |
| 24 | Of course just to run the thing users will have to be prepared to buy more hardware than is typical on a desktop . |
| 25 | Many of these headings are cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric , but this requires more skill to achieve and is also more extravagant on fabric . |
| 26 | This requires more maintenance than the welded grooved rail , but has the advantage of ready access and interchangeability from one side to the other . |
| 27 | This keeps more options open for XH558 . |
| 28 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 29 | This would give equal weight , one-third , to each value ; as the data has already been smoothed it would seem sensible to give more weight to the middle value . |
| 30 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |