Example sentences of "[pron] make more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , following the two oil price shocks it was decided that the country 's vulnerability ( as Europe 's largest oil importer ) to crude price rises meant that a policy which made more use of the country 's abundant coal resources and reduced oil dependence should be followed . |
| 2 | History teaching had been developing along lines which made more use of reference and local source material , while IS , which involved history , science , geography , and religious education ( RE ) , had been concerned with providing greater primary/secondary continuity in the first-year curriculum , and with developing , through an interdisciplinary base , essential learning skills . |
| 3 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 4 | ‘ If anything , you make more fuss than I do . ’ |
| 5 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 6 | Are you making more toast ? |
| 7 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 8 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 9 | You see I 've got the prob I mean my initial reaction is I mean I I 've got no strong feeling to say we 've got to supply product the stuff it 's cheaper , we make more money , sod it . |
| 10 | It 's a steady pressure trying to push that through , and we increase the resistance , we make more resistance |
| 11 | We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints — |
| 12 | ‘ If they make more money in Germany , say , than they do at home , they will need to reinvest more there , ’ he says . |
| 13 | They make more business trips . |
| 14 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 15 | He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess . |
| 16 | But would n't it make more sense to catch that nutter who 's roaming the countryside around here ? ’ |
| 17 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 18 | ‘ Would n't it make more sense to land at the Luftwaffe base at Cherbourg ? ’ |
| 19 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 20 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 21 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 22 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 23 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 24 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 25 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
| 26 | But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished . |
| 27 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 28 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 29 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 30 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |