Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 2 | I am conscious that this section on specific deviations has consumed more space than was originally intended . |
| 3 | Having sorted out his long game he just needs to acquire more consistency around the green . |
| 4 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 5 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |
| 6 | Lynne wants to see more workplace creches available and believes Labour offers the best policies for mums but questions how they will pay for some of their ideas . |
| 7 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 8 | The new chairman of the physics committee , Professor Michael Hart of Kings College , London , wants to see more representation of mainstream physics at the highest levels within the SERC — especially on the council itself . |
| 9 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 10 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 11 | Th the boats are fine but the the main human interest in it does tend to be , in fact , the personally , the two dogs has has more prominence in the picture than this chap , which is a pity . |
| 12 | The craft of the ivory carvers has attracted more attention . |
| 13 | they reflect the growing military importance of the Nordic area to the Soviet Northern and Baltic fleets , just as the Northern Flank has attracted more attention in NATO defence planning ; |
| 14 | This procedure has attracted more opposition , both from religious authorities , who regard it as in some ways similar to adultery , and from sociologists , whose misgivings are based on two main reasons . |
| 15 | Conspiracy , it has been said , is a highly anomalous tort , though it has attracted more controversy among academic writers than success in practical application . |
| 16 | The transport secretary thinks Britain needs more roads , and therefore wants to extract more money from road-users . |
| 17 | It has included more discussion and comment than Westminster did in 1989–90 , with only 65% of its items using televised actuality and the average duration of each piece of actuality being only three minutes ( 69% of each item ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And now John Cleese has added more fuel to the debate . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | It also put the man who has won more money than anyone else in golf within reach of the $8 million mark . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Your favourite newspaper has won more awards for its consumer journalism than any other paper . |
| 26 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 27 | On the second day of the magazine 's appeal for a retrial of the libel action in which Mrs Sutclife was awarded £600,000 , Geoffrey Shaw , her counsel , said : ‘ This woman has undergone more stress since 1981 than any of us are every likely to undergo . |
| 28 | It feels as if he has met more children than any other group of the population during the campaign . |
| 29 | The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s . |
| 30 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |