Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 2 | My chairman knows more than anyone how difficult it is to obtain good quality samples of natural conversational data . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember any of the country because of me being such a young age , but my sister remembers more than I as she is older than myself . |
| 4 | She had been a teacher , and made sure the girl went to a good school : ‘ my granny had more influence on me education-wise . |
| 5 | Child 1 ‘ My daddy handles more power than your daddy . |
| 6 | COULD N'T I LOSE WEIGHT BY MAKING MY BODY NEED MORE CALORIES ? |
| 7 | My body knows more than my mind , he thought . |
| 8 | ‘ Would my husband like more wine ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |
| 10 | My abaya had more gold then than now . ’ |
| 11 | My orderly put more coal on for me . |
| 12 | Shelly : Not mine , because my brush has more water . |
| 13 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 14 | When I speak of ‘ seeing ’ or ‘ showing ’ a truth which becomes ‘ apparent ’ , of ‘ lucid ’ , ‘ clear ’ or ‘ obscure ’ ideas , of ‘ points of view ’ or ‘ aspects of a situation ’ , of ‘ shedding light ’ on a matter or ‘ being in the dark ’ about it , my language becomes more and more plainly metaphorical . |
| 15 | ‘ Parliament in my judgment has assumed and contemplated that the testator will have already made his will before he signs and the words in section 9 ( b ) ‘ give effect to the will ’ in my judgment do more naturally suggest that there is a document already in existence which contains either dispositive provisions or something which can properly be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 16 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 17 | He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing . |
| 18 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 19 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 20 | The plummeting of her heart did more to convince her of her true feelings than any rational thinking . |
| 21 | Under the Chester scheme , landlords pay £50 to register , but if they fail to do so and their houses contain more than the permitted number of occupants , they face fines of up to £1,000 . |
| 22 | The Charity Organization Society survived , its practice modified more than its principles ; still , until 1914 , dominated by C. S. Loch who remained a prominent public voice on matters of social policy . |
| 23 | She hoped her words carried more conviction than she felt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In its white paper The Health of the Nation the government has announced its intention to give more priority to preventive health care . |
| 26 | He held her head more tightly as her lips discovered more secrets . |
| 27 | Conscious that her feet were bare and her ankles in full view , she constantly tried to adjust her skirt to cover more of her ankles and yet keep the material out of the water . |
| 28 | The airline has beefed up the awards provided by its frequent-flier programme , and overhauled its aircraft to give more leg room . |
| 29 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 30 | Such groups find that their work becomes more and more routine as it is divided into specialist tasks . |