Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to focus mainly on Latin Europe stems from a long-held conviction by WACC-Europe members that the regional association needs to encourage more members and more communication activities in southern Europe . |
| 2 | Peter Tickner , director of planning and marketing at the college , said : ‘ It is aimed at the unemployed , anyone who feels their education was lacking , or anyone who wants want more qualifications , such as mothers who want to get back to work after having children . ’ |
| 3 | But they 're not very evenly spread — the Army , as the largest service , has let more contracts than the Navy or RAF and has been much more positive about the process . |
| 4 | ‘ You could n't have had a golf course made for a man 's game more than that golf course for John Daly , ’ observed the man who has won more Masters than anyone , six all told and now playing his 34th in succession . |
| 5 | Grobbelaar , 35 , who has won more medals than any other goalkeeper , is currently on loan to Second division Stoke and a return to Merseyside now looks highly unlikely . |
| 6 | Your favourite newspaper has won more awards for its consumer journalism than any other paper . |
| 7 | It feels as if he has met more children than any other group of the population during the campaign . |
| 8 | The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s . |
| 9 | Old Shallot 's a brawling man : a born street fighter and a soldier who has seen more battles than many of you have had hot dinners . |
| 10 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
| 11 | The German Institute for Standards ( Deutsche Institut für Normung — DIN ) has written more standards than any other country in the EC . |
| 12 | But a new survey has revealed more problems at Park South Junior and Infants schools . |
| 13 | And what difference will it make to a government which has made more U-turns than a snake ? ’ |
| 14 | Since 1967 , Franco-Soviet space co-operation ( between CNES and Intercosmos ) has proceeded smoothly , whereas French-US co-operation has had more downs than ups , with CNES resentment at some NASA attitudes of superiority becoming a mutually reinforcing vicious circle . |
| 15 | Deborah ( Chapter 2 ) mentions how advertising ‘ pretties up periods ’ , and it is a fact that since putting ads on television for sanitary products , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has had more complaints than for any other product , which says a lot about the public 's discomfort and embarrassment where periods are concerned . |
| 16 | It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party . |
| 17 | In his career , Nicholas has had more agents than Rangers Pools . |
| 18 | Argos has opened more stores , but sales of goods like stereos and home furnishings have plummeted . |
| 19 | But Outer Space has got more leaves than I thought . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty ‘ Sex ’ tome . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty Sex tome . |
| 22 | There is some evidence to show that the poverty caused by the economic crises of the early 1980s has drawn more women into the labour force . |
| 23 | Now C D thirty one is an endophilial cell adhesion molecule and the antibody has been shown to be the most specific marker of vascoendophilia and consistently in studies has stained more vessels than other markers . |
| 24 | So big is the rush expected in the shops that W. H. Smith has bought more copies of this book than any other in its history . |
| 25 | Statistical comparisons with previous periods indicate that he has extended the time for supplementary questioning on ministerial statements and on Private Notice Questions and this has enabled more Members to be called . |
| 26 | Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort . |
| 27 | He wants to do more programmes as well as record more good songs . |
| 28 | Twickenham is a long way away and the message from the North is that the Rugby Football Union needs to plough more resources into its missionary work in the area . |
| 29 | ‘ What I have found in the region is that because it has experienced more downturns than other parts of the UK it has a resilience to the dips the economy may take , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It is a fact that Ken Schofield has spent more hours than he cares to recall on the " South African affair " . |