Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 2 | I relish the trend towards more analysis and context in news programmes . |
| 3 | Mr Lamont is not happy because he has been the subject of more criticism and speculation over the past three months than most Ministers suffer in a lifetime . |
| 4 | Mr Major , whom one suspects of more mischief and humour than he is credited with , has declared his old enemy to be ‘ Minister for the Little People ’ , which sweetly traps Mr Waldegrave between the cartoonist Pont and the leprechauns . |
| 5 | It proposes the controlled planting and harvesting of more fir and birch trees . |
| 6 | And Chief Joseph was a man of more sagacity and intelligence than any Indian I have ever met . |
| 7 | However , it has been our aspiration to introduce ideas of more novelty and distinction , urging students to write accompaniments which have originality and may provide a unique framework for the melody and words which express the composer 's more intimate feelings . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs Martin are concerned about the trend for more size in this type of Texel , fearing that in pursuit of more frame and height the strength of the gigot may be lost . |
| 9 | Assuming that you have retrieved your ferrets , reluctant though you may be to give up there is wisdom in recognising that you have reached the stage where the expenditure of more time and effort can not be justified . |
| 10 | It was a 21st minute moment of magic which delighted the home fans and seemed to stun Middlesbrough , who had started the game with more purpose and menace . |
| 11 | Carrington , a colonial , possibly in love , detached , watched all this with a definite slight unease and hoped the battle in the field was conducted with more competence and panache , not to say goodwill . |
| 12 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 13 | Liberals favour the protection of human rights together with more participation and decentralization in government . |
| 14 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 15 | If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited , we might more easily and ‘ with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance ’ of what lies beyond the horizon , and ‘ employ [ our ] … thoughts and discourse , with more advantage and satisfaction ’ about what lies within our reach . |
| 16 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 17 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 18 | The fact that disruptive behaviour often leads to considerable stress , anxiety and absenteeism suggests that it is all the more important that schools tackle the issue with more clarity and imagination . |
| 19 | Eventually four relatives of Anwar 's turned up with more drink and food , and gifts of cloth and pots . |
| 20 | The company has also announced a revision of the HP Lab/Ux Lims system that provides users with more sample-tracking and information management capability at a lower price . |
| 21 | With more spirit and élan on the attack than the dogged Britisher , he was also much more impressionable in adversity , altogether less capable of the kind of orderly , defensive retreat such as Britain 's soldiers have been accustomed to during so much of her military history . |
| 22 | Arrangements are currently under way for the University to provide the Graduates Association with more help and assistance for the future and to use the lists of the alumni that have recently been compiled , to help them enlist new members . |
| 23 | The Hero is Sylvia McNair , and she brings a distinct gain , for there is more tenderness in her ‘ Je vais le voir ’ than in Eda-Pierre 's singing , and the joyous mood of ‘ Il me revient fidèle ’ comes with more conviction and strength of contrast . |
| 24 | Sussex University was born , with more glitter and publicity than had attended the more earnest first days of Keele , and with a declared mission to redraw the map of knowledge , to challenge the hegemony of the traditional subject , to celebrate a new scientific culture . |
| 25 | Of course there are cards on the market with more memory and processor power to drive expensive monitors at high resolutions ( like 1280 by 1024 ) and 256 colours but they cost well over £1000 . |
| 26 | The club also plan to cover the 35ft high by 140ft wide mural with more sponsorship and advertising deals to help recoup the cost . |
| 27 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 28 | Most importantly , WASL will be fundraising for a new home which will provide the organisation with more shelf and storage space , exhibition area , meeting rooms and more basic facilities . |
| 29 | Lady Elizabeth Hoby was a striking woman in more ways than one ; her portrait seems to endow her with more strength and resolution than actual good looks . |
| 30 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |