Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 2 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 3 | This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 5 | And after that it 's , it 's partly systematic , that you discover more organisations and you go and look for them , and it 's partly luck , that erm you drop into a library or you meet someone who says ‘ Oh , did you know that erm there are these papers in , in such and such a library ? ’ |
| 6 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 7 | Er girls were never included as horses as I remember it , but nowadays there are of course , which means that you have more boys available to be ploughmen and this perhaps helps the numbers . |
| 8 | Stand up for your rights , Aries , but do n't dig your toes in so much that you create more problems for yourself . |
| 9 | You are likely to find that you need more fillings when you visit the dentist . |
| 10 | There 's going to be eating more flies , so you need more swallows , so that looks the right way up . |
| 11 | We could hear the groan of their engines for so long that we thought more vehicles were approaching . |
| 12 | Right so we 'll just look at the sort of er the negative side of not making the time that we get more mistakes . |
| 13 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 14 | He rightly points out that we need more ladies toilets and if you know you get the chance to use the ladies loo it 's cleaner and better looked after than the men 's , I 've heard . |
| 15 | Assertiveness training is about extending and being flexible in our communication style so that we have more choices as to how we respond in different situations . |
| 16 | That we have more shoes , more choice , but still the same queues . |
| 17 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 18 | Many people who have not been sailing before , many parents are worried about their youngsters , think that it 's dangerous and whatever and we have all this information , we have all these checks , we have a wonderful education scheme er within our own organization in this country and we should go out and sell that and I think we , a lot of it 's going on already and I do n't decry that and we need to just market that a little better to get more youngsters on the water because once we get more youngsters on the water the pyramid gets wider , the building gets higher , so that 's an important issue |
| 19 | What we want is something wherewith to prod the teachers so that they impart more facts more efficiently . |
| 20 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |
| 21 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 22 | For exporters who price their exports in foreign currency , a fall in the exchange rate will mean that they earn more pounds per unit sold . |
| 23 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 24 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 25 | We 've both been married twice , although he has more children than I do and I 'm very jealous of that . |
| 26 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 27 | The local ice-cream shop is run by a Norwich man who informed all who would listen that he sold more types of ice-cream than Sainsbury 's . |
| 28 | Their data showed that the larger the coalition , the greater was the fitness of each male within it despite the fact that he had more companions with whom he had to share paternity . |
| 29 | William of Jumièges , elaborated by William of Poitiers , reports that Edward set sail with forty ships , crossed to Southampton , defeated a large English force , and returned to Normandy after realising that he needed more men to obtain the kingdom . |
| 30 | The only difference was that he trained more winners than most of them did . |