Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hence , the high-performing division has more power and autonomy than the less-performing division because ( at this stage ) it is contributing more to the firm 's goals . |
| 3 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 4 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 5 | Presented with a shelf of five cars , above another shelf of four cars , four-year-olds judge correctly that the top shelf has more . |
| 6 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 7 | Each age brings its own problems , and old age has more than its share . |
| 8 | The redesigned editorial page gives more space to readers ' letters ( page 18 ) . |
| 9 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 10 | His priority remains external appearance , for ‘ the advancement of Public Taste requires more than this — that we should combine convenience of arrangement with elegance in external appearance ; a point of much consequence to the general aspect of the country ’ . |
| 11 | Hawkes 's polemical purpose becomes more and more apparent as the book develops : it is to undermine , not only established literary study , but liberal humanism itself . |
| 12 | If the hon. Member has more information about illegal services , he should pass it on to the proper enforcement authorities . |
| 13 | Since these have to do with complex processes of political control and relationships between industrial relations actors and the state , an adequate understanding of them and their historical context requires more than a superficial acquaintance with the countries concerned . |
| 14 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 15 | The comprehensive text does more than ample justice to the illustrations . |
| 16 | Wholemeal bread contains more nutrients than white bread and three times as much fibre , but this does n't mean white bread is bad for you ; it contains valuable protein , carbohydrate , calcium , iron and B vitamins , and some fibre . |
| 17 | • We have commissioned a report that shows that spending money in the civil sector creates more jobs than spending money on defence industries . |
| 18 | And because a bored person has more time to think about himself and his problems , those physical results of stress may well progress more rapidly in him than in the person whose mind is always on other things . |
| 19 | So far as elderly people in particular are concerned , there has been relatively little change in patterns of co-residence with relatives until the later part of the twentieth century ; although there have been some fluctuations , the overall pattern shows more continuities than changes . |
| 20 | As the base of the Japanese economy becomes more and more industrial and commercial , less and less dependent on the support of the rural sector , and as the shrinking agricultural sector in its turn has less to offer to the rest of the economy , this mutual interdependence between the two sectors will diminish still further . |
| 21 | FOOTBALL 'S new Premier League becomes more and more meaningless as millionaires vie with each other to buy the title . |
| 22 | ‘ A real book needs more than just a good writer . |
| 23 | Each personal account has more plot twists than a whole series of Dynasty : compulsive , unputdownable , gripping |
| 24 | As the countries of the world , irrespective of bloc , appear to become more and more bound up with one another through the extension of transnational practices , some of which are directly identifiable as practices of global capitalism and some of which not , the fact of the global system becomes more and more obvious to ever more people , though the nature of the global system might still appear extremely difficult to grasp . |
| 25 | The real mother seems more than happy to feed the pups , then allow them to nest under the bantam . |
| 26 | So the extra time means more opportunity to use the Dutch Additional Experiment ( DAX ) , a set of detectors designed to investigate individual sources in more detail . |
| 27 | As The Economist put it in a wide ranging analysis : ‘ European business needs more competition , not less ’ . |
| 28 | The result is that Mr Clinton is unlikely to unveil his plan until the third week of June , and it could be later if his economic package encounters more problems . |
| 29 | The Peak District National Park attracts more people than any other in Britain . |
| 30 | In terms of the multiplier-accelerator interaction , rising investment is causing national income to rise via the multiplier effect and the rising level of national income induces more investment to occur , after a lag , via the accelerator . |