Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 North Korea has secretly produced more plutonium ( from which nuclear weapons can be made ) than it has owned up to ; it is suspected of building a bomb , despite its NPT promise not to do so .
2 ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’
3 I think that 's probably the one thing : Texas music has just got more variety to it than the Delta stuff or Chicago or New Orleans .
4 The Natural Environment Research Council has already provided more funds for its own remote-sensing work .
5 In cases considered since Roe , the Supreme Court has generally shown more deference to congressional restrictions than to the states ' attempts to overturn Roe , for example it ruled that public funds may not be used for abortions whether therapeutic or non-therapeutic ( Harris v. McRae 1980 ) .
6 The fighting in Germany and in Belgium has always attracted more attention than other aspects of the war .
7 Alexander Rodchenko , a pioneer of constructivism , whose work has possibly had more impact in the West than any other Russian photographer .
8 The mighty IBM , which has probably set more industry standards than most other organisations put together , is not being drawn into the argument .
9 Ken was ably assisted by seconder Royal Robbins , who has probably drilled more bolts than anyone else .
10 Front squats also place more emphasis on the quadriceps .
11 At the same time , the Secretary of State has revealed his attitude to developments in his response to structure plan policies ; in many cases , while approving the general outline of the structure plans , he has also given more emphasis to permitting further development in rural areas and has substantially reduced the proposed limits for some green belts ( Elson 1981 ) .
12 Ministers claim that the clause is designed simply to convey more information to parents and give parents a choice about the educational future of their children .
13 The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests .
14 For the past quarter-century , the Prime Minister alone has regularly received more attention in The Times than the three leading ministers together — the Foreign Secretary , Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leader of the House of Commons .
15 This is important because walking uphill requires more energy than walking along a level surface .
16 The plot , should there be such a thing , thickens as Fleeting has consistently put more cash on the table than his opponent .
17 The break-in happened between 6.30 and 10.30pm on Thursday night but so far no witnesses have come forward to give more information about the exact time of the raid .
18 He aims to grab 8% of the audience by offering more music and less talk , thereby attacking the BBC 's Radio One , which has recently offered more talk and less music .
19 The name CIA is now synonymous with everything that is corrupt and has certainly turned more people towards Communism than would have been the case had American foreign policy been more open and honest .
20 I was standing up , offering to go downstairs to get more drinks , and glancing out of the window when I saw Jo .
21 I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know .
22 You 'd do better to buy more shares in the market — if you really want more .
23 In both mental and written parallel tests more pupils were able to give the temperature in Celsius than in Fahrenheit .
24 ‘ The next few months will be extremely difficult but I am confident that our reputation for quality , forged with our customers over the years , will allow us to bounce back quickly and develop rapidly to create more jobs in the not too distant future , ’ Mr Dunn said .
25 Let's all work together to promote more fostering , get the children into family environments wherever possible .
26 Meanwhile farmers who run tourist attractions have got together to bring more visitors to the area .
27 Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy
28 There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review .
29 Their colleagues who worked hard to reduce their waiting lists only attracted more work .
30 ‘ This may seem obvious , but MMB statistics show that at least 50pc of producers could have profitably produced more milk , ’ he told producers .
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