Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 2 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 3 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 4 | WAKING UP one Sunday morning , my first thought was of more sleep and consequently not bothering to go to the deanery day that had been organised in our area . |
| 5 | Counselling sensitivity and insight can often be of more value than strictly medical knowledge . |
| 6 | Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it . |
| 7 | One would hope that the recently formed Department of National Heritage , being a much larger ministry with more prestige and probably better staff , would help with that problem . |
| 8 | In many countries with very unequal land holdings , land reform is considered an essential prerequisite to a successful soil conservation programme ( e.g. Baker 1980 , for Peru ; and Eckholm 1976 : 55 ) , in order to encourage secure and long leases of land so that tenants would invest in conservation and in some cases provide marginal farmers with more land and therefore income to be able to afford conservation measures ( FAO 1977a : 27 ) . |
| 9 | You can not doubt it would be a better city with more public and less private investment . |
| 10 | A change of routine would be invigorating and you would return to the road in the autumn with more enthusiasm as well as more ability . |
| 11 | Having said that , I am of course aware with more humility that ultimately we depend on the professional judgement , so generously given , of Mrs McNaughtan . |
| 12 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |
| 13 | She cradled the phone with more force than strictly necessary , just as Jack Lawrence strolled past in his black leather gear . |
| 14 | ‘ No sooner is the dish empty than it is filled again — and with more food than before ! ’ |
| 15 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 16 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Valuable coins would naturally be searched for with more energy and so tend to be recovered at a higher rate in ancient times . |
| 18 | I have included your name on my mailing list for EFL software , and will write to you with more information as soon as I am able . |
| 19 | In ready response , his embrace grew masterful , and they clung together as he kissed her face and neck repeatedly , each time catching her lips with more desire and more breathless pleasure . |
| 20 | This latter implicitly calls for more funding and hence an even more costly burden of regulation . |
| 21 | Tom Kite revamped his swing for more distance and then his putting touch deserted him . |
| 22 | For the vast majority of the work that we do there is very seldom any criticism , and in actual fact there is mostly a clamour for more activity and more and better work . |
| 23 | Rose Jennings calls for more passion and less vague sentiment in anti-war art |
| 24 | The overwhelming need was just for more films and so nobody really worried if there were a few strange films somewhere along the spectrum and similarly , as there was a need for lots of directors and cameramen , there was no harm in making films which allowed them to gain experience . |
| 25 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 26 | The American journalist , Bernard Nossiter , even saw Britain 's decline of manufacturing output as a sign of advance and of maturity , since the British , civilized and civic-minded as they were , were proclaiming the need for more leisure and less regimented ways of living . |
| 27 | From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort . |
| 28 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 29 | I started putting in more hours and sometimes found reason to sleep at the office , hoping I could sleep off this feeling of falling out of love . |
| 30 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |