Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mill 's fears led him eventually to favour proposals to give the educated more votes than the mass of the people . |
| 2 | Johnson and Douglas ( 1978 : 151 ) point out that the Equity Funding scandal , ‘ perhaps one of the largest securities and investment frauds ever perpetuated on the American public , … involved more losses than the total losses of all street crime in the US for one year ’ . |
| 3 | A roster for crusts had to be started as these contained more bread than the average thin slice . |
| 4 | There are many reasons for this , but it is mainly because the infilled ditch contains more moisture than the surrounding dry soil . |
| 5 | In many countries , regular servings of beer , wine and spirits contain roughly the same amount of alcohol — but many people still believe that a measure of spirits contains more alcohol than a glass of beer . |
| 6 | One thus has The intensity is related to this , but the probability distribution function contains more information than the intensity . |
| 7 | Every day contains more weather than a week in Scotland , and weeks in Scotland can drag on for centuries , believe me ! |
| 8 | Sanitation causes more controversy than the problem of water supply , possibly because it affects people in cities . |
| 9 | Something in my tone must have carried more weight than the words themselves . |
| 10 | By slightly increasing the time between visits to the toilet , the bladder will be able to contain more urine and the risk of sudden incontinence is reduced . |
| 11 | For a pair like , say , Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank , that would free more cash than the two 's combined profits of the past five years . |
| 12 | But they 're not very evenly spread — the Army , as the largest service , has let more contracts than the Navy or RAF and has been much more positive about the process . |
| 13 | The large burghs retained more functions than the small which had given up ‘ most of their important functions to the surrounding county council ’ ( Wheatley 1969:25 ) . |
| 14 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 15 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 16 | ‘ He has more experience than the other two , and showed a great deal of improvement last year . |
| 17 | But the plot has more holes than an OAP 's hairnet , and the supercilious Ms Dash thoroughly deserves the pig-ignorant Mr Wayans , I strongly advise brother Marlon not to give up the day job and I sincerely hope I am indisposed should they decide to foist Mo' Money 2 on us . |
| 18 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 19 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 20 | ‘ He has more positions than the Kama Sutra , ’ says a leading black columnist , Bob Herbert . |
| 21 | Nucella has more species and a longer fossil history in the Pacific than in the Atlantic . |
| 22 | This reflects a Thatcherite judgment that the CSA , an employers ' association representing over 300 companies , has more clout than a chartered professional institute with 30,000 registered members . |
| 23 | If the reader has more knowledge than the writer has supposed , then he will tend to disregard the discourse that has been plotted in the act of writing and simply take from the text whatever best suits his purpose . |
| 24 | But what the Opposition call a modernised valuation system has more components than a car manufactured in the constituency of the hon. Member for Dagenham , and on top of that we are promised a revaluation every year . |
| 25 | That dream world has more solidity than a house uninhabited . |
| 26 | It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price . |
| 27 | The ITF has more power than the ATP but the ITF needs the ATP . ’ |
| 28 | This is , of course , not only a plea for common sense , but also an argument in favour of estimation rather than hypothesis testing — a vaccine efficacy estimate of 77% for these data has more meaning than a of 53.1 . |
| 29 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 30 | In order to survive and expand it will need more sponsorships and an increased awareness of the current market penetration . |