Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many schools have , where possible , extended the provision to include more than one all-purpose Home Corner room , and sometimes children have a ‘ kitchen ’ , ‘ lounge ’ and ‘ bedroom ’ in which to play . |
| 2 | As Westernizing tribes like the Kikuyu became more and more politically active , it was only natural to look to the Masai , who showed no interest in either taxation or representation , as a potential ‘ counterpoise to the agitator class ’ . |
| 3 | The snorting grew louder , and as the brute got more and more excited by the nearness of the delicious Little Billy smell , the smoke began coming out faster and faster , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph . |
| 4 | And as she rubbed against him , her skin became more and more slippery , until she squelched as her open crotch ground against his thighs . |
| 5 | Many have blamed what they termed an inability to win on an inability to hit more than one shape of shot . |
| 6 | Just mating with a single female may be difficult enough and very few will have the opportunity to mate more than once a year . |
| 7 | This differentiation became more and more marked in the music of his later Minato operas : Xerse ( 1654 ) , L'Artemisia ( 1656 ) , and the rest . |
| 8 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 9 | The case became more and more complicated . |
| 10 | Racism became more and more intense and finally there were major eruptions in the race riots of 1958 . |
| 11 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 12 | His breathing became more and more laboured , but I was assured that he was feeling no discomfort . |
| 13 | Soon I felt a great pain in my head and my breathing became more and more difficult . |
| 14 | His breathing became more and more uneven . |
| 15 | And her willingness to suffer more if need be . |
| 16 | Similar difficulties are likely to arise where a provision has more than one status ; eg where a procedure is treated , for some purposes , as also being a rule . |
| 17 | As the third round of Sino-British talks got under way in Peking on the handover , the blue chip Hang Seng Index rose more than 100 points . |
| 18 | The viaduct is over 1,000 feet long and the crossing stands more than 100 feet above the river , with 12 arches of 60-foot span . |
| 19 | Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom . |
| 20 | The ban covers more than eleven thousand acres of council land . |
| 21 | ( b ) If the computer has more than one processor register , then instructions are necessary to transfer values to and from these registers , the source or destination of the value being either another processor register or a store location . |
| 22 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 23 | Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast ; in particular , the Piper field has more than doubled its originally projected cost . |
| 24 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 25 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 26 | From Friday to Sunday this week , the Autumn Franchise Exhibition at Birmingham 's NEC will provide a unique opportunity to meet more than 100 new and established franchise companies , under the umbrella of the BFA . |
| 27 | Very often a sentence contains more than one ambiguous word form ; in such cases , there will occur a kind of mutual negotiation between the various options so as to achieve the most normal combination . |
| 28 | The administration became more and more centralized and the civil service enmeshed with it , notably after Robin Butler became Secretary to the Cabinet in 1988 . |
| 29 | Most rhythmic perception involves more than one rhythmic component , however , and poetic rhythm … often contains all three " ( p. 123 ) . |
| 30 | In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space . |