Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 2 | ‘ What about some more music ? |
| 3 | ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said . |
| 4 | Today I bought Canoeist , looking for warm ideas for some more canoeing ; unfortunately there was nothing suitable . |
| 5 | Shopping in the market place for some more knitting wool , I loved seeing Sir Adrian Boult buying brussel sprouts . |
| 6 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 7 | ‘ Ready for some more action , Vera ? ’ |
| 8 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 9 | Moodily he put on the kettle for some more coffee , powdered this time , he could not rise to the skills performed so effortlessly by Sarah Fleming . |
| 10 | ‘ With regard to future developments , I feel there is a need for some more training in new technology , particularly in the field of computers and perhaps a more systematic approach to training ’ … |
| 11 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 12 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |
| 13 | As early as I 3 days after implantation the embryo ( as , after many more cell divisions , the developing child is called ) will have its own blood vessels connected to the mother 's at this point , a membrane keeping them apart . |
| 14 | After one more roundabout and one more tune , we drove through the compound gates , drawing up to the house with ringing ears and a mild sense of both exhaustion and satisfaction . |
| 15 | Fault-tolerant systems manufacturer Stratus Computer Inc will join the exodus out of the Intel Corp 80860 RISC camp after one more iteration and has decided to switch to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 16 | After two more kissing gates you reach Wolsingham 's Uppertown . |
| 17 | The issue was discussed as a matter of urgency last night by Sefton 's education committee after two more arson attacks badly damaged schools in Crosby . |
| 18 | After two more war novels he turned to westerns . |
| 19 | There is the potential for much more conflict . |
| 20 | To a Labour government it might provide the opportunity for much more spending on schools , hospitals and roads . |
| 21 | If you are planning on a family and intending to stay in your present home , then allow for much more storage space than you need now . |
| 22 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 23 | And the forecast for tonight is for much more snow . ’ |
| 24 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 25 | She called for much more effort to be made to provide an aesthetic environment where some sense of personal identity and dignity is preserved . |
| 26 | They knew that any noise from within the atmosphere would be stronger when the detector was not pointing straight up than when it was , because light rays travel through much more atmosphere when received from near the horizon than when received from directly overhead . |
| 27 | Does not the Minister agree that it will be a travesty if the same formula is used this year and my constituents are therefore robbed of much more money that is needed for health in the area ? |
| 28 | There seemed to be a period of of much more stability in the population |
| 29 | Is this a man of much more style than substance , and what test would you use to determine whether he 's had a good hundred days or a bad hundred days ? |
| 30 | It offers the promise of much more precision to the vague categories of the BCG and McKinsey-GE matrices , while attempting to incorporate the valuable insights of those matrices into the capital-budgeting decision . |