Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 2 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 3 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 4 | But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies . |
| 5 | The fact that Japanese people save more of their incomes , for instance , might lower borrowing costs for Japanese companies . |
| 6 | These unfortunate people have more comprehension of the nastiness of the Saddam regime than the member for Northampton North , who gives ‘ rugby spectator ’ as one of his hobbies in Who 's Who . |
| 7 | The provision of family allowances , which could have been interpreted ( at least indirectly ) as encouraging people to have more children , hardly commended itself . |
| 8 | Reviewing other medical studies of large populations , the authors dispel another myth , that fat people consume more calories than thin people . |
| 9 | Although the prevalence of a few types of physical impairments is higher among males , many of the largest subgroups of older disabled people contain more women than men . |
| 10 | Self-employed people have more leeway about how much tax they pay . |
| 11 | Eliot was the most orderly of men , and Anne Bradby ( who became Mrs Ridler shortly after ) was , I am sure , a methodical young lady ; but typescripts did get lost or mislaid , though other people suffered more than I did . |
| 12 | They will pass these on to us : ‘ You are exceptionally important ’ , ‘ Other people matter more than you do ’ , ‘ If you 're a good girl/boy I will love you ’ , ‘ I will overpower you if you are naughty . ’ |
| 13 | Such short-term care can provide the parents with children who are difficult to handle with an essential break , and affords an opportunity for older mentally handicapped people to gain more independence . |
| 14 | If the retailer plans his customer flow carefully , he can increase sales by tempting people to buy more than they intended . |