Example sentences of "on more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | Richard Rose 's review of the Gallup survey on twenty political issues found that majorities of voters for all three parties agree with each other on more than two-thirds of all issues , that most Alliance voters agree with the national majority on nineteen of twenty issues , and that most Conservative and Labour voters with the majority on seventeen of twenty issues . |
| 3 | If it looks good he throws on more wood , if it looks bad he throws on more paraffin . |
| 4 | If it looks good he throws on more wood , if it looks bad he throws on more paraffin . |
| 5 | And that will mean resisting those tempting offers from lenders designed to encourage us to take on more debt by making the initial costs appear cheaper , but which store up trouble for the future . |
| 6 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 7 | And from Spike Lee to Reverend Jesse Jackson , Michael Jordan to Philip Michael Thomas , black movers and shakers now shape US opinion on more than just race . |
| 8 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |
| 9 | Then , as soon as the lecture was over , I 'd rush to the campus shop or café to fill up on more food : sweets , cakes and peanuts . |
| 10 | McFarlane , having spelled out with caution the Israeli arguments and the Iranian blandishments , admitted that ‘ the concept raises a number of imponderable questions ’ , including ‘ where this might lead in terms of our being asked to up the ante on more and more arms and where that could conceivably lead … |
| 11 | Inspired by this success , Sylvestra embarked on more which grew into an exhibition ‘ including one commissioned by Julian Glover of him and his dresser — a colourful character known as Black Mac , and one of David Bradley talking to himself as Justice Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 . |
| 12 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 13 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 14 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 15 | That day , I not only forgot the can of fruit and the opener when I sat down to lunch , but was up and down , putting on more clothes and trying to find the most sheltered spot in relation to the wheelbarrow . |
| 16 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 17 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 18 | However , success does depend on more than restructuring the membership . |
| 19 | For the new government , economic regeneration rested on more than mere control of public expenditure . |
| 20 | But for the most part we shivered in our beds that winter , heaping on more and more blankets , which seemed to be made of a mixture of cardboard and lead and only increased the weight without increasing the heat . |
| 21 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 22 | On more than occasion New Scientist — and at least one science editor from a leading newspaper , to our knowledge — has told the BA that the press can afford to pay for their own drinks and for those of their less wealthy friends who do n't have the same access to expenses . |
| 23 | Meanwhile I rejoice in the survival of those large , landed properties where life goes on more or less as before . |
| 24 | She 'll only spend it on more booze and meths but I do n't care . |
| 25 | I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm . |
| 26 | She 's a tough , single-minded lady who has n't achieved her present position without treading on more than a few toes . |
| 27 | I have probably seen this skin fluke parasite on more fish in my laboratory studies than any other pathogen . |
| 28 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 29 | Speechreading is an uncertain art ; successful speechreading depends on more than the skill of the individual : it also depends on the circumstances and the speaker . |
| 30 | I had tried it before and put on more weight due to not re-educating my eating habits , but I needed to see immediate results to get the enthusiasm to continue dieting . |