Example sentences of "had more " in BNC.
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| 1 | This empty stage , this empty auditorium beyond , agape like a hollow mouth , had more potency for his mother than ever he and his dry father had ; its unreality was more real for her than their reality . |
| 2 | Wendy had more intelligence than her pleasant calm looks might have led the casual observer to suspect . |
| 3 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 4 | Increasing prosperity in the United Kingdom meant that people had more spare cash , and much of this was spent on an increase in personal travel . |
| 5 | So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round . |
| 6 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 7 | The Washington Redskins had more trouble than they should have with the injury-ridden Phoenix Cardinals before winning by two points while San Francisco relied on one of those Joe Montana come-from-behind specials to overcome New Orleans 24-20 . |
| 8 | He accused his editor , Govindan Kasturi , of ‘ arbitrarily ’ deciding to discontinue the expose , even though the paper had more documents in its possession . |
| 9 | She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year . |
| 10 | But while their leaders considered these lofty goals , the party 's bureaucrats had more immediate problems on their hands — the prospect of unemployment . |
| 11 | But on political perceptions where there were elements of approval or disapproval media effects were much smaller , and it was the press , rather than television , which had more impact . |
| 12 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology . |
| 13 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology ( though much less than their partisanship ) . |
| 14 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 15 | The effects of the Volga famine were more disruptive and politically dangerous in another national minority area that had more ethnic pretensions , and above all suffered nearly as much from famine as the Great-Russian Volga provinces . |
| 16 | The cities and the regime survived this temporary threat , but the boomerang effect of the Famine on the countryside had more lasting influence . |
| 17 | They also had more of a challenge than Durham . |
| 18 | Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later . |
| 19 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 20 | Someone who possibly had more influence on Laing than anyone else was the late Sir Douglas Crawford , formerly chairman of Wm Crawford $ Sons , which became part of United Biscuits in 1962 when Sir Douglas became vice-chairman until his retirement in 1974 . |
| 21 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 22 | As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research . |
| 23 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 24 | The court , the judge said , had more material before it than did Mr Justice Henry . |
| 25 | But then the starving thesp always had more street cred than the vouchered … |
| 26 | The Seoul 100 metres silver medallist , who had won the 200 metres unpressed in 21.30sec on Saturday , had more formidable opposition in the 60 metres from Michael Rosswess . |
| 27 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 28 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 29 | It was no longer necessary , when building a moderate sized house , to be completely practical and simply to provide shelter — people had more money and thus concentrated more on pleasing their eye . |
| 30 | In all of Asia only India had more cases — and India 's population is 15 times Thailand 's . |