Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In marginal cases , courts have sometimes allowed the applicant an opportunity to provide more details pointing to materiality or agreed to an order subject to the applicant giving security for costs . |
| 2 | Perhaps power lies with the supplier now , but overpowering or ‘ negotiating too sweet a deal ’ might provoke retribution later when the buyer has more suppliers from which to choose . |
| 3 | Ms Short said the women 's vote could help Labour to win the next general election provided more women could be persuaded that Labour was sensitive to women 's demands . |
| 4 | ‘ RUSSIAN has more words in it than any other language , ’ the teacher told me confidently . |
| 5 | It is currently the accepted policy in the mental health field to provide more services in the community for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | With the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990 's we must take every opportunity to encourage more girls and young women to follow what I firmly believe to be a most rewarding of careers . |
| 7 | But as news of this service spreads , and more referrals are received from GPs and district nurses , the hospice needs more volunteers . |
| 8 | Herzen 's suggestion that it continue in the West created more problems than it solved . |
| 9 | As the national administration made more demands in the form of conscription and taxation , so the recommendation of a patron became more important . |
| 10 | Now the brigade wants more women to come forward . |
| 11 | The horse has more chromosomes , 64 ( 32 pairs ) , but only 26 are metacentric . |
| 12 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 13 | The east coast has more bays , coves , villages and anchorages to visit than there are days in your holiday , and the west coast has dramatic cliffs , sea caves and a spectacular rock arch to explore . |
| 14 | In 1989 councillors unsuccessfully invited tenders for a refreshment facility in an attempt to encourage more drivers to use the site . |
| 15 | In a free market economy , supply normally exceeds demand ( assuming no artificial shortages ) and , as a result , companies use various promotional tactics in an attempt to attract more customers . |
| 16 | Labour wants more opportunities in education . |
| 17 | A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one . |
| 18 | Last year the society 's committee made a decision to relaunch in a bid to attract more members and introduce a more entertaining programme . |
| 19 | In a bid to attract more dogs for its Monday night permit meetings Sunderland will be paying £3 appearance money plus prize money of between £15 and £25 a race , with no entry fees for trainers . |
| 20 | The partnership wants more firms to take on people like Glen to tackle crime at its source . |
| 21 | The older man explained softly : ‘ The President has more enemies in the United States than he does in England . |
| 22 | iii ) The number of steps executed during the deceleration depends on the load conditions ; a load with high inertia and low torque needs more steps to decelerate than a low inertia , high torque load . |
| 23 | Football needs more men like Pahdra at the masthead . |
| 24 | Sky are spending £5 million this month on a lavish advertising campaign in a bid to sell more dishes and win more armchair fans . |
| 25 | It was the NSF 's statistics that led President Carter 's administration to feed more funds to basic science , though it is doubtful whether the numbers help in decision making at a more detailed level — whether to increase or cut a laboratory 's budget , for example . |
| 26 | Pop and plainchant , Otis Redding and O'Riada , ‘ Walk On The Wild Side ’ and ‘ Faith Of Our Fathers ’ — an average Pierce Turner album features more couplings than you 'd find at a business executive conference in Bangkok . |
| 27 | AIDS kills more blacks than whites . |
| 28 | The Department obtained more grants from the SOED in competitive tendering than did any other institution . |
| 29 | Inevitably the preliminary review presented in this chapter raises more questions than it answers . |
| 30 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |