Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 3 | When asked if he thought Essex 's capital allocation was adequate , Mr Burns replied : ‘ Nothing is ever adequate by definition — everyone wants more money . |
| 4 | For factoring , which involves more work , the charge can be anything between 0.5% and 3% of invoice value . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
| 10 | This is a problem which needs more evidence . |
| 11 | It is the country which needs more graduates , it is industry which says demand outstrips supply . |
| 12 | White noise is not a good simulator of music , which contains more energy at low frequencies than at high ones . |
| 13 | The first evolutionary scenario , which places more emphasis on the intentional ingredient than McDowell would allow , is as follows . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have 75 tubs of Neck Gel to be won ; just tell us which has more vertebrae in its neck , a giraffe or a horse . |
| 16 | She chose pattern 137 from ‘ Stitchworld ’ , which has more holes than fabric . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For some congregations and occasions an informal , relaxed language is appropriate , whilst others will require one which has more formality and dignity . |
| 19 | The type which has more protein to lipid is called a high density lipoprotein or HDL . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And there 's a V A T , V A C twenty expanded which has more gadgets on it . |
| 22 | Thus short-wave radiation , which has more energy , is likely to be more dangerous than long wave . |
| 23 | ‘ We want to say ‘ no ’ to all development which causes more mobility , ’ said de Jongh . |
| 24 | The recent liberalization of legal services which allows more people to do conveyancing may make it even more important than it has been hitherto . |
| 25 | The obsession , which affects more boys than girls , can be as bad as the eating disorder anorexia , said Dr Dorothy Rowe . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |