Example sentences of "[pron] make more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 5 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 6 | ‘ If anything , you make more fuss than I do . ’ |
| 7 | ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish . |
| 10 | Are you making more toast ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We make more programmes — 110 hours of radio and television journalism each week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's a steady pressure trying to push that through , and we increase the resistance , we make more resistance |
| 16 | We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints — |
| 17 | ‘ If they make more money in Germany , say , than they do at home , they will need to reinvest more there , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Some people like prison because they make more friends in there . |
| 19 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 20 | They make more business trips . |
| 21 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 22 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 23 | He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess . |
| 24 | But would n't it make more sense to catch that nutter who 's roaming the countryside around here ? ’ |
| 25 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 26 | ‘ Would n't it make more sense to land at the Luftwaffe base at Cherbourg ? ’ |
| 27 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 30 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |