Example sentences of "[conj] make more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , that made more sense . |
| 2 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 3 | The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more … |
| 4 | The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more … |
| 5 | The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more … |
| 6 | I.e. we want to create the impression that we are good people to do business with , so our customers come back and buy more of our books , so that makes more money for the company , which means they can pay us more money . |
| 7 | The organisation 's uncertainty is shown by its decision not to have any particular point of view on the future of the European Community : a decision that makes more jaws than Mrs Thatcher 's drop . |
| 8 | So even if they made a little , if they 've got the glass cutter , made a little round hole then reached , still could n't get the window open they 'd be forced to break the whole lot and make more noise . |
| 9 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |
| 10 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 11 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
| 12 | Nature conservation is not a primary policy aim in these Parks but it tends to follow as a secondary consideration from the primary aims which are to conserve the social and cultural heritage of the Region , improve employment and make more use of the Region for recreation and education . |
| 13 | For the deaf and aphasic , they will need to employ pen and paper in addition to speech , and make more use of bodily and facial cues than might otherwise be necessary . |
| 14 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 15 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 16 | If you wanted to you could work a few more rows of stocking stitch and just put in a single row of holes again , but for our practise piece it is better to carry on and make more holes . |
| 17 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 18 | And made more tadpoles . |
| 19 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 20 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 21 | Current areas of interest and concern include student employment and practical training , improving links with other European students through their Institutes and making more information accessible on the employment and student alternatives available to students . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that up to 300 million tonnes of oil a year could be saved in the USSR by cutting waste , substituting gas for oil in industrial complexes and making more use of the vast coal reserves , but whether this will be achieved to any significant extent outside the essentially capitalist ethos where cost saving is an easily learned lesson , is doubtful . |
| 23 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation called on the next government to give the National Rivers Authority powers to veto thirsty building and industrial developments , and to make more water available for rivers and wetlands . |
| 24 | Factors are keen to shed the negative image they have had since the 1960s and to make more companies aware of the service they can provide |
| 25 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |