Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In recent years teaching in schools has become more project and assignment oriented with less emphasis on teaching and more emphasis on independent learning in the curriculum .
2 Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort .
3 I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place .
4 Since then the importers have run more advertisements asking owners to contact them .
5 But the kids have got more confidence have n't they ?
6 The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans .
7 Since the peak of West Indian migration occurred well before that of Asian migration , West Indians have had more opportunity to form families and have children who are , of course , born in Britain .
8 Some countries have announced more members than they were allowed to send . ’
9 The backward countries have got more aeroplanes that we have .
10 By any yardstick , starting even with television , the visiting countries have shown more initiative .
11 If the trend continues , 1989 will be the first year in which UK companies have made more acquisitions in continental Europe than in the US .
12 A basic amount of money must be provided , and the Conservatives have put more money than ever in real terms into education .
13 His surviving sermons have commanded more admiration .
14 We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river .
15 Th the boats are fine but the the main human interest in it does tend to be , in fact , the personally , the two dogs has has more prominence in the picture than this chap , which is a pity .
16 However , in this last case , in order to achieve this equality of earnings , ethnic-minority workers have to do more shift-work because their jobs are intrinsically worse paid .
17 In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker .
18 The leisured classes have had more attention than they deserve .
19 Interest-rate subsidies have attracted more notice , but the comparative cost of credits in different currencies has not been much explored .
20 Now C D thirty one is an endophilial cell adhesion molecule and the antibody has been shown to be the most specific marker of vascoendophilia and consistently in studies has stained more vessels than other markers .
21 And farmers had to grow more cereal and vegetable crops .
22 Mr Denham said he understood the pharmacy owners had wanted more time to prepare their case .
23 One branch runs north-westwards up into the Indonesian archipelago , where volcanoes have killed more people than anywhere else on earth , and peters out before reaching the Asian mainland .
24 Farmers have promised more mayhem if their government does not resist US demands for cuts — and they are backed by public opinion .
25 As assemblies have in general diminished in influence and executives have asserted more control , it has been argued by some that assemblies must change their role and become much more concerned with overseeing the work of the ever-growing bureaucracy .
26 But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others .
27 Privatization for our members has meant more work for less pay with less people and with less time to complete the work .
28 The attackers have got more experience , and probably quicker , but I ca n't imagine ‘ Zico ’ has .
29 However , total enrolment fell between 1980 and 1986 , suggesting that girls have had more opportunity to go to school under war conditions than boys .
30 " I just hope you two girls have got more sense than ever to set a foot out there . "
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