Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 2 | Perhaps he spends more time with his wife when he 's ashore these days . ’ |
| 3 | Like the cold war , it is , as Mary Kaldor has defined it , an imaginary war , only it has more substance . |
| 4 | Meanwhile he spends more time indoors than he did before — and never ventures into Swindon alone late at night . |
| 5 | Always she wants more thread , cloth , more money . |
| 6 | A tiger with extra-sharp teeth can kill prey more efficiently than a normal tiger ; hence it has more offspring ; hence it passes on , vertically , more copies of the gene that makes sharp teeth . |
| 7 | Now she spends more time at her aunt 's house than at her own home nearby , as she did when she grew up with Suzanne . |
| 8 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 9 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 10 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 11 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 12 | Then he puts more water in the kettle and waits for it to boil . |