Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , she unhappily munches more candy bars — and that 's how wise old-timer Ninny Threadgood finds her when Evelyn visits a relative at Ninny 's retirement home . |
| 2 | Perhaps she even makes more errors in a test than in continuous writing , because not having any context for the words , she is unable to check them for meaning when she reads them over . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 4 | Violence of any sort solves nothing — it only breeds more violence . |
| 5 | It only brings more destruction . |
| 6 | It just makes more sense . |
| 7 | Well , it still does n't give me any money , but it just stops more money going out of my account . |
| 8 | It generally has more impact on debtors and moves along faster than the County Court . |
| 9 | It usually has more nails on its feet than the African species . |
| 10 | Hamleys , the country 's largest toy shop , claims it still sells more Concordes than Tornados . |
| 11 | It also proposes more exploitation of the wood for educational purposes . |
| 12 | ‘ It also has more potential and requires more involvement on our part . ’ |
| 13 | It also makes more sense when it comes to keeping to your target weight once you have reached it . |
| 14 | If anything , like the Patent Office , it probably needs more staff to deal properly with new ideas and to advise inventors . |
| 15 | Do pay extra for daytime babysitting ; it inevitably involves more work . |
| 16 | And when it comes to lipsticks , it now offers more shades than any other company in the world . |
| 17 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 18 | When A&R men talk of , ‘ compromising in little bits ’ taken to its extreme , it often means more choruses , fewer verses and the vocals and drums well up in the mix . |
| 19 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 20 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 21 | It sometimes takes more courage to say no , I do n't want to you than to get into the fight yeah . |
| 22 | There 's always a danger that you 've , you 've , it 's a fine balance between it creating more work , so it actually causes more problems . |
| 23 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 24 | Whether or not one agrees with Oakeshott 's position , it represents a sophisticated defence of the imperfectionist argument for a ‘ limited politics ’ , and it certainly warrants more consideration than Honderich provides . |