Example sentences of "[vb past] more [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 2 | If such obvious confusion exists in management literature without a financial orientation , it is high time financial analysts devoted more attention to it . |
| 3 | On his journey ‘ through five republics ’ ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Uruguay , and Venezuela ) in 1905 he devoted more attention to railways than to any other single development . |
| 4 | As a result , he devoted more attention to the question of policing the countryside than to the creation of local representative institutions . |
| 5 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 6 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 7 | In February 1984 the strange , black snow that fell on the Scottish Cairngorms bore more resemblance to vinegar than frozen water . |
| 8 | The director said the film was a black comedy , but the mass hysteria engendered by the goings on in Bates Motel bore more relation to his aim ‘ to provide the public with beneficial shocks ’ . |
| 9 | At the same time , it implemented a second , more radical phase of land reform , which redistributed more land to previously landless peasants . |
| 10 | Joe added more gravy to the meat swimming on my plate , and I wanted to pull Mr Wopsle 's nose . |
| 11 | On March 12th the Volynsky Regiment mutinied and added more weight to the revolutionary machine and they broke into the arsenal in Petrograd and handed out weapons . |
| 12 | Before departing , we added more tape to the top of the fuselage , where it had come loose . |
| 13 | For most of the nineteenth century officials paid more attention to the judiciary than to the police , but in the twentieth century policy shifted and the police became central to colonial efforts at crime control . |
| 14 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 15 | She bought little treats for princes Wills and Harry and — always a tell-tale sign — paid more attention to her appearance . |
| 16 | I said that Wittgenstein paid more attention to the negative side of his teaching , his attack on the experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language in terms of feelings , than to the positive side , his own explanation in terms of ‘ It hurts ’ replacing moaning . |
| 17 | All subjects then received A-shock pairings followed by a test session assessing the generalization of conditioned suppression to both B and C. Suppression on this test was not profound but , as Fig 5.7 shows , each group showed more suppression to the stimulus that had received stage-one training equivalent to that given for A. |
| 18 | The introduction of the lamp allowed more coal to be dug and more profits to be made . |
| 19 | The introduction of the lamp allowed more coal to be dug and more profits to be made . |
| 20 | What he experienced through his hands made more sense to him than written words of instruction . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , sweet Fabia , you 've no idea what it cost me ! ’ he applied more salve to her wounds . |
| 22 | Over the last few laps of the race , with all the cars on wet-weather tyres and racing in a steady drizzle , Bailey lost more ground to both the Mercedes . |
| 23 | A budget concession on the poll tax offered more relief to pensioners with savings . |
| 24 | He will have won because his vision offered more hope to American voters than four more years of George Bush in charge . |
| 25 | He felt more duty to his mother too , because she had brought up his own first son after his wife 's death in childbirth . |
| 26 | Advantages : less money was tied up in machinery ; newer machinery did the job better and more quickly ; those hiring out machinery generated more income to the farm and could justify the expense of new machines ; there was employment for farmers ' sons in home locality . |
| 27 | The best of them , Canon Ivory in Saxburgh , brought more diligence to the care of his hives and garden than to the needs of his parish . |
| 28 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 29 | In the Lord Mayor 's speech in London in November 1985 Nigel Lawson formally abandoned M3 and since 1987 gave more emphasis to broad money or M4 ( which is M3 plus building society liabilities ) though not setting a target range . |
| 30 | As the Working Group continued its deliberations on the secondary school curriculum , I was informed privately that Mr Baker would give way on this issue as long as the weighting for 16 year olds gave more emphasis to reading and writing . |