Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two giant reservoirs — the Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar in Madhya Pradesh — are each to hold more water than any others on the Indian sub-continent . |
| 2 | He says that some bank lenders and creditors have already indicated they are prepared to lend more money to the company . |
| 3 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 4 | In Zone ‘ UK ’ , 67 per cent of humans are willing to exchange more currency for such objects . |
| 5 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 6 | Though heads are delighted to have more autonomy — they will now be able to hire a plumber without going through the town hall — many feel that they are being buried under a mountain of paperwork . |
| 7 | But we 're likely to make more money at it than perhaps the sweat shops do . |
| 8 | more water in when you 're ready to put more water in , can I get the water and put it in the jug and pour it in ? |
| 9 | Because of the uncertainties ahead , which are likely to cause more difficulties for smaller companies , the bulk of the trust 's portfolio is , at present , mainly in the larger blue chip companies . |
| 10 | We are likely to see more agreements offering better deals to part-timers , to entice mothers back to work , as the demographic changes begin to bite . |
| 11 | General checklists or weighting systems not based on such an understanding are likely to do more harm than good . |
| 12 | The various records are likely to contain more data . |
| 13 | The increased detail of these codes means that hospital coders are likely to have more difficulty in coding clinical work accurately . |
| 14 | These factors along with demographic trends and recent events in Eastern Europe are likely to have more influence on labour mobility than the legislation programme to allow for free movement of labour . |
| 15 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 16 | But the Canaries are likely to have more success if they throw 29-year-old Crook into the equation . |
| 17 | As sociological interest in the problem grows and develops , we are likely to have more understanding of these questions . |
| 18 | Homes built in 10 , 20 or even 100 years time are likely to have more similarities than differences to the houses of today , with technological advances incorporated unobtrusively into the design . |
| 19 | In some ethnic minority families as a result , women are likely to have more children to look after than white families and less older relatives around them to help . |
| 20 | But plans are afoot to raise more cash from new programme sales . |
| 21 | Day by day , the Government are unwilling to put more money into training . |
| 22 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 23 | Small scale research suggests that when children are relieved of the burden of hand-writing and hand-rewriting stories they are able to give more attention to structure and composition . |
| 24 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 25 | It means we our staff are able to take more time er to understand and advise our clients which we need to do . |
| 26 | The programme is time-tabled over three years , with the option of an accelerated 2-year programme for those who are able to devote more time to their studies . |
| 27 | ‘ It has meant that the Independent on Sunday has been able to devote more review space to children 's books , and as a consequence many other newspapers are paying greater attention to children 's books . ’ |
| 28 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 29 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 30 | In organisations like the WEA particularly , because of its grass roots and more democratic base , women have been able to take more control of their own learning and become their own teachers and organise themselves in ways which are less controlled by patriarchal infiltration . |