Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |
| 2 | Principal contenders are rightly given more time than fringe candidates . |
| 3 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ We have obviously had more successes in the Shankill where we frustrated many UFF operations . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Mr Fairfax , as you can see , we 've already made more progress than you managed on your own . ’ |
| 6 | These men are bitterly wondering why they have not had more thanks for nursing Hungary towards democracy . |
| 7 | These questions are so plainly hard to answer that it is worth pausing to consider why they have not had more effect on the development of International Relations theories . |
| 8 | In cases considered since Roe , the Supreme Court has generally shown more deference to congressional restrictions than to the states ' attempts to overturn Roe , for example it ruled that public funds may not be used for abortions whether therapeutic or non-therapeutic ( Harris v. McRae 1980 ) . |
| 9 | I think that 's probably the one thing : Texas music has just got more variety to it than the Delta stuff or Chicago or New Orleans . |
| 10 | And they 've just got more room have n't they ? |
| 11 | The Natural Environment Research Council has already provided more funds for its own remote-sensing work . |
| 12 | Press and television in Africa are generally allowed more freedom of expression than is radio , and one suspects that the reason is that already mentioned : the elitist fear of uneducated people listening to radio and being ‘ misinformed ’ or ‘ confused ’ . |
| 13 | A natural consequence of an affinity to mechanical things , and an ability , what is more , to master them , is generally accorded more status than direct patient contact . |
| 14 | North Korea has secretly produced more plutonium ( from which nuclear weapons can be made ) than it has owned up to ; it is suspected of building a bomb , despite its NPT promise not to do so . |
| 15 | The fighting in Germany and in Belgium has always attracted more attention than other aspects of the war . |
| 16 | However , previous attempts to change those procedures at Lloyd 's have usually presented more problems than privatising the water authorities . |
| 17 | In Britain we 've always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint … |
| 18 | Alexander Rodchenko , a pioneer of constructivism , whose work has possibly had more impact in the West than any other Russian photographer . |
| 19 | Feminists in psychology have always had more respect for biology than have feminists in other disciplines . |
| 20 | We discuss the role of money in the Keynesian model in Chapter 22 where we see that a change in the money supply , according to this model , only affects national income through its effect on the rate of interest ; it is because of this that Keynesians have usually put more faith in fiscal rather than monetary policy . |
| 21 | No Opposition have ever mutilated more forests in the interests of producing an endless stream of written policy documents containing come-ons and pledges of all sorts to every sectional interest , but when we add up those pledges and cost them , the Labour party becomes very coy . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 23 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 24 | At the same time , the Secretary of State has revealed his attitude to developments in his response to structure plan policies ; in many cases , while approving the general outline of the structure plans , he has also given more emphasis to permitting further development in rural areas and has substantially reduced the proposed limits for some green belts ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Thus although it is true to say more Blacks chose to be committed to the Crown Court for trial this was certainly not a complete explanation of the difference , as magistrates also committed more cases . |
| 26 | Ken was ably assisted by seconder Royal Robbins , who has probably drilled more bolts than anyone else . |
| 27 | They have also made more use of video analysis . |
| 28 | Bowe 's trainer Eddie Futch , 80 , who 's probably seen more fights than even most men of his age have had hot dinners , expects it to be one of the best he 's been involved with . |
| 29 | At forty-seven years of age , he was young enough that he could be expected to complete the work , and yet he had probably built more buildings than any of his close rivals . |
| 30 | He added that the defence also needed more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after fresh evidence came to light last week . |