Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As potential applications for PCR develop more emphasis is being placed upon the practical aspects of the reaction . |
| 2 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 3 | The need for industry to employ more people who can speak another language is recognized by Kenneth Baker , as this comment shows : |
| 4 | If one person is prevented getting AIDS by this officer , we 've paid for that person for two years , and I think practically every one of these posts that Queenie takes great offence at is producing a useful end product , and the other point is that Government legislation year after year after year puts more responsibilities on the City Council , the new Environmental Protection Act is a good example . |
| 5 | And his ’ habit of arriving back late in the evening after dinner to do more work was recorded in my preliminary report . |
| 6 | Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic . |
| 7 | However , the level of information on R&D required by SSAP 13 is minimal , and calls for companies to provide more information still persist . |
| 8 | Leading business figures , like the chairman of Sony , Akio Morita , say it is in fact time for companies to show more consideration for their employees , shareholders and local communities . |
| 9 | In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched , forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold . |
| 10 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 11 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 12 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 13 | Each year the painful birth of birds brought more seeds , more bones , more wolves into the forest . |
| 14 | This form of teaching takes more time than other methods but the emphasis is on learning the processes of thinking and organisation involved in reaching solutions . |
| 15 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 16 | The wartime shortage of labour ensured more jobs for the blacks , but they seldom got the better jobs . |
| 17 | Instead of hearing blocks of questions that used only more , or only less , they had to respond to such questions as ‘ Does this set of lollipops have more lollipops , less lollipops , or the same number of lollipops as this set ? ’ |
| 18 | The problem of Taiwan caused more friction . |
| 19 | A greater number of branches means more jobs , and more opportunities for promotion of existing staff . |
| 20 | That old-fashioned , risky art-historical game of influences makes more sense than usual here . |
| 21 | A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one . |
| 22 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 23 | There are organic changes to the heart , and it becomes less efficient as we get older ; but lack of exercise causes more deterioration than simple ageing . |
| 24 | Name change is part of plan to generate more interest |
| 25 | Speaking purely politically , in the current climate , cultural representations of failure have more resonance than fortitude-in-adversity . |
| 26 | How do employers react to the supposed increased willingness of workers to offer more labour services resulting from a monetary stimulus ? |
| 27 | The geographical patterns of de-industrialization allow more understanding if we study the collective geographical behaviour of leading decision-takers . |
| 28 | Consent theorists , correctly perceiving that consent to the authority of a reasonably just government does endow it with authority over the agent , and faced with the fact that few people actually consent to the authority of their government , have often tried to extend the notion of consent to cover more cases . |
| 29 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 30 | At all other values for the real wage , output is constrained either by the unwillingness of firms to produce more output or by the unwillingness of households to provide more labour services but not by both at the same time . |