Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
| 2 | She says that the shop can be a little bit difficult to find so , to make things easier and encourage more trade , Sue has produced a Newsletter which she has circulated amongst knitting clubs . |
| 3 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 4 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 5 | Great swarms of starlings and thrushes raid the vineyards by day , pecking at large numbers of grapes but eating few and causing more damage indirectly by rot than by anything else . |
| 6 | He says he 's delighted and hopes more people will come to see the window . |
| 7 | Add more capability to a software program and you inevitably end up with something that 's bigger and has more machine instructions for the CPU to execute . |
| 8 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 9 | I was leaving all that to Posi , as usual and paying more attention to the lateral and reverse ceptor screens around the control area . |
| 10 | Editorial space and broadcasting time are unbiased and have more credibility than advertisements . |
| 11 | And the plants grown in polymer were larger and had more leaves than those in control soils . |
| 12 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 13 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 14 | The symbol is illustrated in Figure 6.7 and contains more information on the provisions of the plan than does CPM . |
| 15 | The symbol is illustrated in Figure 6.7 and contains more information on the provisions of the plan than does CPM . |
| 16 | We will restore housing benefit to people under 18 and provide more refuges for women escaping domestic violence . |
| 17 | It 's big , black and has more studs that a biker 's jacket . |
| 18 | The diminutive local garrison was ineffectual and demanded more pay . |
| 19 | Leo looked owlish and splashed more whisky into their heavy cut-glass tumblers . |
| 20 | Finally , Marx saw that as bourgeois society became more complex and produced more group interests , so the state machinery was bound to expand in order to bring them under a measure of control : |
| 21 | If girls discuss birth control with their mothers , they are more knowledgeable and take more control over this area of their lives . |
| 22 | Without you I 'd probably feel happy and have more money and time and nothing to do with it . |
| 23 | Work on these lines has already cleared up many of the mysteries of the Pleistocene and holds more hope of a final elucidation than any other method known . |
| 24 | T-shirts and polo shirts are infinitely preferable to ordinary shirts , since knitted fabrics crease less and absorb more moisture than wovens . |
| 25 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 26 | Extension training in the form of distance learning may become more important and have more influence than conventional teacher-training . |
| 27 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |
| 28 | I hope that in so far as we are achieving a consensus on care in the community , there is a general recognition that it will cost more and use more resources . |
| 29 | When men and women are talking together , for example , it seems that men interrupt more , talk more , swear more and use more imperatives ; whereas women ask more questions and tend to use more polite forms of speech . |
| 30 | I echo his remarks , supported by some impressive statistical evidence , about the way in which the national health service in Thurrock and Basildon is improving and treating more people . |