Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland , solicitors sell more properties than estate agents and it is probable , therefore , that there are more property specialists in their ranks than he imagines . |
| 2 | Several advantages can be identified , perhaps the most important of which is that it would remove the financial disincentive which currently exists for doctors , hospitals and Health Authorities to treat more patients . |
| 3 | High interest rates and falling values mean MORE repossessions . |
| 4 | And the authorities build more prisons , like the new Twin Towers Correctional Facility , huge windowless towers of forbidding grey concrete with openings like arrow slits . |
| 5 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 6 | Similarly , it has long been known that hens lay more eggs if they are kept under artificial illumination . |
| 7 | Angry traders say more police are needed in a village hit by two armed robberies in the space of a week . |
| 8 | However , within each word order condition subjects recalled more words from the passage when they had been informed of its title . |
| 9 | When they had quenched their thirst a little , they returned to the bushes to pick more berries , staying a little closer to each other . |
| 10 | And , he added , the broadcasts of parliamentary sessions attracted more viewers than films based on Agatha Christie novels . |
| 11 | Readers wanting more details should contact EuroInfo Centre , which is based at Atrium Court , 50 Waterloo Street , Glasgow G2 6HQ . |
| 12 | Part ( b ) of the figure represents the iso-vote curves and indicates combinations of two ‘ bads ’ , namely inflation and unemployment , that yield equal votes from the electorate where the labels indicate more votes as you move towards the origin . |
| 13 | He held her head more tightly as her lips discovered more secrets . |
| 14 | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor ( cmos ) circuits save power , allowing designers to put more circuits on a chip . |
| 15 | The activation of this space detector would inhibit all detectors for all words containing more letters than the target . |
| 16 | Secondary schools offered more rungs on the career ladder , but the chance of becoming a head teacher was much lower . |
| 17 | In higher education , the pressure will continue on universities and polytechnics to teach more students more efficiently . |
| 18 | Subsequent centuries brought more layers of thought and tradition to ideas about the undergraduate curriculum . |
| 19 | Mr. Wigley : Is the Secretary of State aware that the Welsh Development Agency has identified the television and film industry as one of the growth sectors to develop more jobs in Gwynedd ? |
| 20 | Its manufacturers employ more workers in Guangdong than they do in Hong Kong ; its hotels are filled with tourists and salesmen en route for Peking and Guilin ; its accountants , bankers and lawyers service thousands of foreign firms wide-eyed about the profits which they believe will one day be made from a billion Chinese consumers . |
| 21 | A greater number of branches means more jobs , and more opportunities for promotion of existing staff . |
| 22 | His ambitions were fulfilled as he rightly claimed that his cars won more races than any other model . |
| 23 | A great idea for encouraging kids to eat more apples is the brightly coloured Junior Cox box from Home Grown Fruits Ltd . |
| 24 | Large numbers of teachers are unemployed , not because they are not needed , but because the government does not provide funds to employ more teachers . |
| 25 | But horned dinosaurs had more bends in each joint , and were more rhino-like . |
| 26 | As expected , those in residential homes had more consultations and more visits from their general practitioners than others . |
| 27 | It has also shown that more was spent on services in Newham than in Ipswich ( partly because Newham clients had more services and partly because services were more expensive ) . |
| 28 | Instead of hearing blocks of questions that used only more , or only less , they had to respond to such questions as ‘ Does this set of lollipops have more lollipops , less lollipops , or the same number of lollipops as this set ? ’ |
| 29 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 30 | The general decline in the level of money wages would lead to reductions in real wages , which in turn would encourage employers to hire more workers . |