Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much wider social sciences literature concerning bargaining offers little more help . |
| 2 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
| 3 | He needs some more fruit juice . |
| 4 | He certainly needs some more players you know he 's not got enough . |
| 5 | His aim is to be the first President of Corea and since he is 72 and has few more years left in which to realise his ambition he will use any means to hand including , if time presses , the blood of his deluded followers . |
| 6 | To make up for losses by retirals , resignations and transfers some more recruits joined in the 1950s including M. Armstrong , A. Davies , A. L. Harris , M. F. Howells , F. May and D. I. Smith . |
| 7 | Thames Valley Police Force says it needs 800 more officers to cope with rising crime , starting with 200 this year . |
| 8 | Wants some more bread |
| 9 | He places some more logs from a pile near by onto the fire and pushes an old , blackened kettle into the middle of the newly revived flames . |
| 10 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 11 | There is some evidence that the history of policing in England and Wales contains much more resort to the stick and fist than is recognized in the orthodox accounts . |
| 12 | Its water contains much more salt than normal sea water . |
| 13 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 14 | It has six more consultants , a new computerised axial tomography scanner , new plastic surgery beds and an additional surgical ward . |
| 15 | OF 2 , for instance , has six more AOs ( four valence-shell orbitals on each fluorine , rather than one for each hydrogen in H 2 O ) and hence six more MOs . |
| 16 | This relatively small increase causes much more work for the heart and lungs , and will result in greater cardio-vascular fitness . |
| 17 | Shorting has much more influence than its size would suggest . |
| 18 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies . |
| 20 | The Discovery has the same wheelbase as the Range Rover but , thanks to advances made in interior packaging , has much more room inside its well-appointed cabin than its big , expensive stablemate . |
| 21 | A surprisingly hard-hitting and sporadically fascinating modern fairy tale , but the Pakistani Godfather looks much more fun . |
| 22 | At best the Unix business has three more months to get its act together , maybe 12 months at the outside , before irreversible damage sets in . |
| 23 | Now Gerald Smith wants many more babies to follow Odessa . |
| 24 | German chancellor Helmut Kohl wants 18 more members to represent the former East Germany and the 12 heads of states are likely to agree if they get more representation too . |
| 25 | The Code , for example , contains many more instances of the words precarius and precativus and their cognates . |
| 26 | A reference centre functioning as a small hospital with 24-hour cover needs many more staff than a health centre , and this will drive up recurrent costs . |
| 27 | This country already has many more players available to them than other competing nations without reverting to ‘ poaching ’ and it would be nice if they could find 11 indigenous Englishmen to represent the country . |
| 28 | Jupiter has many more moons than four — we are still not certain of the number , and possibly never will be . |
| 29 | People are not as simplistic as this ; even a moment 's reflection leads to the conclusion that language has many more functions . |
| 30 | And even in the wider social world of adult intercourse , language clearly has many more functions than simply sending information . |