Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 2 | When asked if he thought Essex 's capital allocation was adequate , Mr Burns replied : ‘ Nothing is ever adequate by definition — everyone wants more money . |
| 3 | For factoring , which involves more work , the charge can be anything between 0.5% and 3% of invoice value . |
| 4 | I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it . |
| 5 | Bentham would say that the one which produces more pleasure is the better action , but Mill would say that it need not be , if the quality of the pleasure which is lesser in amount is sufficiently much higher in quality . |
| 6 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 7 | US consumption of electricity is expected to grow by 46 per cent , and coal , which produces more carbon dioxide than either oil or gas , is expected to continue as the staple fuel for generations . |
| 8 | This is a problem which needs more evidence . |
| 9 | White noise is not a good simulator of music , which contains more energy at low frequencies than at high ones . |
| 10 | The first evolutionary scenario , which places more emphasis on the intentional ingredient than McDowell would allow , is as follows . |
| 11 | Now that attitude is changing , most obviously on the West Coast , which has more money than other earthquake zones to experiment with new designs and materials . |
| 12 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 13 | For some congregations and occasions an informal , relaxed language is appropriate , whilst others will require one which has more formality and dignity . |
| 14 | The type which has more protein to lipid is called a high density lipoprotein or HDL . |
| 15 | Denmark , which has more wind turbines than any other territory with the exception of California , expects to have 10 per cent of its energy produced by wind power at the end of this year . |
| 16 | Thus short-wave radiation , which has more energy , is likely to be more dangerous than long wave . |
| 17 | ‘ We want to say ‘ no ’ to all development which causes more mobility , ’ said de Jongh . |
| 18 | Individual letters are subject to more variation in cursive writing , depending upon the letters preceding and following it ( Eldridge et al , 1984 ; Wing , 1979 ) , and because it is not clear where one letter finishes and the next begins , a stage of segmentation is usually employed , which introduces more ambiguity . |
| 19 | Many horses which ‘ have ’ to be kept stabled can be helped by visual and tactile communication ( a stable companion , or a hole knocked through partition walls ) , more bulk in their food , or food which takes more work to eat ( turnips , or small-mesh hay-nets ) , the provision of a playpen outside , and the realisation by the owner that keeping an animal in stressful conditions amounts , quite simply , to cruelty . |
| 20 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 21 | That is what membership of the moral and political community is , and it is a serious business which deserves more attention than I can give here . |
| 22 | However , the theme which deserves more attention is the basic argument of the article : the author is claiming not to be prejudiced and is attributing prejudice to those who oppose the National Front . |
| 23 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 24 | Self-sustaining agriculture must move towards greater internal recycling , which means more nutrient and energy flow routes and more complex interactions within the system . |
| 25 | More channels which means more choice . |
| 26 | These are the new risers from Cellblock — they spread out making a wider area against the deck , which means more shock absorption and also reduces pressure on the deck making it less likely to snap your plank near the trucks . |
| 27 | The answer to this one is more forward speed which means more power or a cleaner model . |
| 28 | An ‘ open ’ question produces a reply which leaves more room for uncertainty . |
| 29 | Addison , well er , it 's a very well managed business , it 's a very good business er , there are only two businesses in the U S A have higher sales per head than Addison Wesley , and one of those is and it 's had a , that 's had a super time in maths and there 's only one business and that 's which earns more profit per employee then er , Addison Wesley and erm , again that 's and that reflects that one off maths programme . |
| 30 | The format has a tree like structure which provides more flexibility than most bit image files , and a powerful range of alternative compression methods . |