Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting there swifter and more often British Rail has announced more services linking Cleveland with other parts of the region , and promised faster journeys from Darlington to Middlesbrough and Saltburn . |
| 2 | First , the APU has put more stress on disseminating survey information which has implications for teaching . |
| 3 | The 22-year-old Bath back-row forward 's astonishing winding road to glory has taken more twists than a roller-coaster , the most recent providing ample proof ‘ that somebody up there has decided I am going to make it ’ . |
| 4 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 5 | To justify its existence , a conglomerate 's headquarters has to add more value than an independent business unit could get from outside advisers and banks . |
| 6 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 7 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 8 | This is not a new disclosure , but Summers has uncovered more evidence that has previously be revealed for Hoover 's long relationship with his sidekick Clyde Tolson , and has also unearthed stories of orgies and transvestism . |
| 9 | In recent years teaching in schools has become more project and assignment oriented with less emphasis on teaching and more emphasis on independent learning in the curriculum . |
| 10 | The employment action programme has created more places . |
| 11 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 12 | The decision to focus mainly on Latin Europe stems from a long-held conviction by WACC-Europe members that the regional association needs to encourage more members and more communication activities in southern Europe . |
| 13 | The oil and gas industry has lost more jobs since 1982 than the country 's car , steel and textile industries combined . |
| 14 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 15 | Blue Velvet has had more effect on me than anything musically — it 's that idea of everything superficially being nice and chummy but underneath there 's something sinister . |
| 16 | Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort . |
| 17 | Formed in 1879 , the cricket club has had more success in the past decade than in the previous century Vaux North West Durham League champions for the past four seasons . |
| 18 | But I think the club has spent more money than it could afford . |
| 19 | The water has just been stocked with roach and rudd from Leazes Park in Newcastle and the club plans to introduce more fish from other venues . |
| 20 | Power-assisted steering fitted as standard to all Safrane models is a speed-sensitive system that ‘ weights up ’ as road speed increases to provide more feedback to the driver . |
| 21 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 22 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 23 | Then once again , the army makes a more permanent camp , the queen starts to produce more eggs and the month-long cycle is repeated . |
| 24 | The Australian has lost more majors than most have won , and Faldo , who had fired a 68 for a six-under 274 , ruthlessly carved out a four at the sudden-death 18th . |
| 25 | American satellite pictures seem to support suspicions that North Korea has produced more plutonium than it owns up to . |
| 26 | The Windsor whose marriage has caused more intrigue than most poked fun at the speculation with his light-hearted remarks as president of the Court of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre . |
| 27 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 28 | The TCA plans to buy more nebulisers for Grove Hill children . |
| 29 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |
| 30 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |