Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 2 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 3 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 4 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 5 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
| 6 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 7 | But I do n't mind confessing that after a few honeymoon months we stalled more times than we took off … if you take my meaning . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I told Pa frankly that under the circumstances I attached more value to Michelet 's advice than to his own … . |
| 9 | History teaching had been developing along lines which made more use of reference and local source material , while IS , which involved history , science , geography , and religious education ( RE ) , had been concerned with providing greater primary/secondary continuity in the first-year curriculum , and with developing , through an interdisciplinary base , essential learning skills . |
| 10 | A consultant who treated more patients would shorten the queue and attract more patients without attracting more resources — more anxiety and no reward or means to do the job . |
| 11 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 12 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 13 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
| 14 | Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song , blackbird , song thrush , robin . |
| 15 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
| 16 | Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later . |
| 17 | In addition , as smith , John Marscal had to repair the lord 's ploughs , and shoe the lord 's horses ; in return he got more land and a cow . |
| 18 | For example : a With cash-limited budgets , efficient authorities who treated more patients simply increased their costs , not their revenue ( the efficiency trap ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 20 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 21 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 22 | The Tauregs know every nook and cranny in the Hoggars , and proved excellent guides , but every ride was a bumpy one , and by the end of the day I had more need of the masseurs than the runners did ! ’ |
| 23 | There was some street detritus which required more imagination than most . |
| 24 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 25 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 26 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 27 | Besides the fittings which required more patience than she possessed ( ’ My worst fault is impatience . |
| 28 | However , following the two oil price shocks it was decided that the country 's vulnerability ( as Europe 's largest oil importer ) to crude price rises meant that a policy which made more use of the country 's abundant coal resources and reduced oil dependence should be followed . |
| 29 | The people who had more experience used to teach me lots of things . |
| 30 | In this aspect she is linked , as I mentioned in Chapter One , with Harriet Finlay Johnson who attached more importance to content than any pioneers since . |