Example sentences of "[vb past] more [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 2 | Even here , if the defendant has ( for example ) used more force than was reasonably necessary , he can ( if appropriately charged ) be convicted of the offence of simple assault . |
| 3 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 4 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 5 | Johnson and Douglas ( 1978 : 151 ) point out that the Equity Funding scandal , ‘ perhaps one of the largest securities and investment frauds ever perpetuated on the American public , … involved more losses than the total losses of all street crime in the US for one year ’ . |
| 6 | Have reforms since 1945 created more fairness and openness ? |
| 7 | He selected Ellis , grandson of Red Grizzly Bear , a choice which angered Lawyer and Joseph and created more problems than it solved . |
| 8 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 9 | This was certainly the conclusion of contemporary intellectuals , almost all of whom thought that the government 's attempts to raise additional troops created more problems than they solved . |
| 10 | Herzen 's suggestion that it continue in the West created more problems than it solved . |
| 11 | This has created more food for everybody and , therefore , created more food that is available to feed animals . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the injustice of adopting one policy for the public sector and another for the private , such tactics have often proved counterproductive and created more battles and delays , ultimately making sites more difficult to sell . |
| 13 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 14 | The only difference was that he trained more winners than most of them did . |
| 15 | DEC folk figure Olsen 's successor Bob Palmer found more trouble than he reckoned on once he took over . |
| 16 | Zambia accompanied Nathan back to the screen room , and in the space of that short time , gleaned more information than Tammuz could ever hope to . |
| 17 | The large burghs retained more functions than the small which had given up ‘ most of their important functions to the surrounding county council ’ ( Wheatley 1969:25 ) . |
| 18 | The USSR devoted more energy and resources to the development of diplomatic and trading ties with these nations than it did to establishing effective operational links with the Communist parties . |
| 19 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 20 | In the 1951 election campaign , Labour was on the defensive , trying to arouse fears of Tory warmongering and mass unemployment , while the Tories promised more housing and less taxation . |
| 21 | Crilly was a lynch-pin of our defence that season — only Bob Greener played more games than Tom . |
| 22 | When I first came to the Commission , cases like these caused more anxiety and provoked more anger and complaint than any others we dealt with . |
| 23 | By contrast , the community college students recalled more information when the if-then relations were stated explicitly than they did when they were implicit only . |
| 24 | Equally , the community college students recalled more information when the relative importance of different ideas was made more explicit . |
| 25 | Eve asked Patsy all about the orphanage , and Patsy told more details than she had ever told Benny . |
| 26 | That seems unusual , but it may be just that the home warren attracted more elil than other places . |
| 27 | And , he added , the broadcasts of parliamentary sessions attracted more viewers than films based on Agatha Christie novels . |
| 28 | PWI attracted more adherents than Wabi itself , including IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , American Airlines , Borland International , Corel Corp , ICL plc , Fujitsu Ltd , NCD , Norwegian Telecom , Quarterdeck , Tadpole , The Foxboro Co , SCO , USL and WordPerfect . |
| 29 | Public Windows Interface attracted more adherents than Wabi itself , including IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , American Airlines , Borland International , Corel Corp , ICL Plc , Fujitsu Ltd , Network Computing Devices , Norwegian Telecom , Quarterdeck , Tadpole , Siebe Plc 's Foxboro Co , Santa Cruz , Unix Labs and WordPerfect . |
| 30 | The results showed that those males with experimentally elongated tails subsequently attracted more females than those with reduced tails . |