Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clovers helped remove the fallow stage from cultivation , effectively bringing more land into use — as in the ‘ Norfolk Four Course ’ ( wheat , turnips , barley , and clover ) advocated but not invented by Viscount Townshend of Raynham ( ‘ Turnip ’ Townshend , 1674–1738 ) . |
| 2 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 3 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 4 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |
| 6 | He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers . |
| 7 | Place the bulbs on a layer of fibre , then work in and gently firm more fibre around them . |
| 8 | On the other hand action-scenes perhaps made more use than quiet ones of the partial concealment of figures by folds of ground . |
| 9 | Principal contenders are rightly given more time than fringe candidates . |
| 10 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 11 | Let's all work together to promote more fostering , get the children into family environments wherever possible . |
| 12 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 13 | After three years of deliberation , the " Lewis Report " merely recommended more research , leaving it to the enterprise of individual head teachers and their staff to make progress in this field . |
| 14 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |
| 15 | This not only supplies more power , but also enables you to get close enough to the board to put your foot on it . |
| 16 | As a result , she unhappily munches more candy bars — and that 's how wise old-timer Ninny Threadgood finds her when Evelyn visits a relative at Ninny 's retirement home . |
| 17 | As the prevalence of a high waist-hip ratio among healthy women is larger than the prevalence of obesity ( 15% and 5% respectively in our study ) body fat distribution apparently has more impact on fertility than obesity . |
| 18 | Healthy , clean wood can heal — sometimes you may be trying to get ahead of spreading disease as it works its way into a plant , and pruning to discoloured , infected wood or leaving bruised , sawn and anything other than clean cuts only causes more trouble . |
| 19 | Workers are chronically prone to money illusion : if prices rise in the same proportion to the rise in the money wage , leaving the real wage rate unchanged , workers none the less supply more labour . |
| 20 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 21 | Some places obviously hold more attraction than others . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Now , try again — only put more effort into it this time . ’ |
| 23 | Connelly deserved more reward for his efforts as he ceaselessly pushed forward and played some excellent one twos with the front runners , but it was not until the seventy ninth minute that Abingdon sealed the result ; Herbert crossed from the right wing and Aries won a challenge in the air to get a glancing header which Green turned on to the post , but the ball rebounded over the line to make it three nil . |
| 24 | Their colleagues who worked hard to reduce their waiting lists only attracted more work . |
| 25 | ‘ We very rarely upgraded machines before , perhaps added more memory , or reallocated old machines as a word processor , ’ he claims . |
| 26 | Finally , because the British were so much further advanced than the French in nuclear matters , they naturally received more information from the Americans , thus reinforcing their preferential position compared with other allies . |
| 27 | In this respect , and in the broader feathers of the wing , this bird perhaps shows more affinity to the gallinaceous family than any other of the Struthionidae . ’ |
| 28 | As we shall demonstrate , the effect of the interaction of these various factors is that for some kinds of service , the elderly living alone obtain more support from the state than those living in other types of household . |
| 29 | Violence of any sort solves nothing — it only breeds more violence . |
| 30 | These she generously donated to the club 's raffle , so adding more pleasure to the afternoon . |