Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 2 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 3 | Mum this is supposed to be a silhouette it looks more like a black tree to me ha ha it 's supposed to be a silhouette . |
| 4 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 5 | She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid . |
| 6 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 7 | Air fares are the most expensive in the world ; for example it costs more to travel from Fiji to Papua New Guinea than from Fiji to Canada . |
| 8 | On the one hand claiming Darlington is in such a bad state it needs more Government help , on the other claiming the town is a thriving local centre . |
| 9 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 10 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 11 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 12 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |