Example sentences of "[noun pl] with more [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed .
2 The tragedy at Bolton in 1946 , in which thirty-three were killed and 400 injured , was the result of admitting 85,000 fans with more clambering over walls or vaulting the turnstiles .
3 If you buy slightly larger computers with more storage erm and more facilities , then you will tend to pay more for the software .
4 In ready response , his embrace grew masterful , and they clung together as he kissed her face and neck repeatedly , each time catching her lips with more desire and more breathless pleasure .
5 And if anything , they regard the coming victory of the United Nations with more apprehension at the moment than they did the possibility of a German victory two or three years ago : the reason being that , in achieving decisive victory , the United Nations will leave Europe with no nation sufficiently strong to shield Turkey against possible Russian demands in the post-war period .
6 There are storage areas with more wire than you 'd dreamed existed ; areas full of strain gauges and various items of test equipment .
7 No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank .
8 I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically .
9 The two families began to exchange visits with more frequency and Jonadab and his youngest son were , on the surface at least , reconciled .
10 The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision .
11 Kendall ( 1975 , p. 70 ) notes that ‘ the competitive , politically-oriented nature of French unionism , the undeveloped character of collective bargaining ’ endows the national confederations with more power than they otherwise might possess .
12 More recently , Trathan has identified genetic individuals with more precision using isoenzyme analysis .
13 The Dutch Parliament thought otherwise , and urged its government to pursue a federal association of states with more vigour .
14 The profit on ordinary activities with more taxation was forty four point one million compared to a loss last year of twelve million but of course these two figures are not comparable .
15 This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families .
16 In the nineteenth century men began to regard these phenomena with more composure , especially if they lived in northern climes where the earth 's crust was relatively secure .
17 This was the English passion , not for self-improvement or culture or wit , but for DIY , Do It Yourself , for bigger and better houses with more mod cons , the painstaking accumulation of comfort and , with it , status — the concrete display of earned cash .
18 Other changes are also required to reverse the trend towards centralisation and authorities with more responsibility than power .
19 Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes .
20 Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes .
21 For interferon has been dangled as a bait before investors with more money than scientific sense .
22 In many countries with very unequal land holdings , land reform is considered an essential prerequisite to a successful soil conservation programme ( e.g. Baker 1980 , for Peru ; and Eckholm 1976 : 55 ) , in order to encourage secure and long leases of land so that tenants would invest in conservation and in some cases provide marginal farmers with more land and therefore income to be able to afford conservation measures ( FAO 1977a : 27 ) .
23 Open to both complete beginners and writers with more experience with Aine Collins .
24 People can plan their affairs with more confidence if they have more guidance about when and how the state will intervene , and the community will therefore be better off if it can reasonably look to past judicial decisions to predict future ones .
25 Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays .
26 Centres with more experience of operating SCOTVEC awards amy have developed more comprehensive internal quality systems .
27 There 's three skill levels with more money at stake on the hardest .
28 She dragged herself back to reality , and began joining in the conversation , listening with amusement while Simone regaled them with stories of some of their customers — fat women with strange tastes in colour , young girls with more money than sense .
29 We looked at labels and washing powders with more interest and at new washing machines with economy programmes — another exam question .
30 Groningen effect on the Deep Laterolog measurement had been suspected , therefore priority was given to wells with more resistivity devices than just the Dual Laterolog/Micro-Spherically Focused Log .
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